That's because the website operators deliberately design the experience to be obnoxious and frustrating. They want you to have a bad experience if you decide t

That's because the website operators deliberately design the experience to be obnoxious and frustrating. They want you to have a bad experience if you decide to opt-out of detailed behavioural tracking, so that you'll feel pressured to "consent" to detailed behavioural tracking, and so you'll feel like the GDPR is to blame, even though it isn't. I've put "consent" in quotes because it's not freely given consent if you are heavily pressured into it, and it's not consent at all if you end up believing you don't really have a choice. These banners/dialogs do not even comply with the GDPR (despite saying the GDPR requires them), as GDPR says consent to non-essential personal data collection about you must be as easy to withdraw as it is to give, and the service you get must be the same if you don't consent as if you do. I wrote a bit more about this here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25441131 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25441131