> I'm tired of having to... Weird, I manually opt out of everything on most websites I visit and I find it pretty straightforward. There's only a handful of fl

> I'm tired of having to... Weird, I manually opt out of everything on most websites I visit and I find it pretty straightforward. There's only a handful of flows that most websites use, so it's not that difficult. There are some egregious exceptions (Yahoo being a particularly annoying one), but that's a small number of cases and, in most cases, it makes me realise I didn't actually care that much about reading their content, so I just move on. Also, the dark patterns are not a result of the law, but a result of insufficient law enforcement. If the EU comissions starts going after a few websites that employ particularly dark patterns for consent, you'll see everyone fall in line. > Is this freedom? Yup, it's that website's freedom to block EU traffic.