This is a mess, I absolutely loath consent boxes both as a user and developer. The ultimate failure of a design is when you need to put up a sign, and this is i

This is a mess, I absolutely loath consent boxes both as a user and developer. The ultimate failure of a design is when you need to put up a sign, and this is insipid idea is basically a billion stupid signs. They totally break the UX of any site you place them on. You pour time into a design and try to make something beautiful and then you're force to put this ugly stupid block over it by a bunch bureaucrats. Likely 99% of users don't even understand what it is supposed to do, and it is probably a flip of a coin whether or not it is even implemented "correctly". I really really hate these things, and the fact that a handful of nerds continue to discuss innocuous web metrics tracking like it is some kind of conspiracy are the cause of all of this and the reason my sites will forever bear this shameful blight.