I strongly disagree, they're little more than pointless nagware designed as a fig leaf over the gaping privacy issues on the modern web. While I get the intenti

I strongly disagree, they're little more than pointless nagware designed as a fig leaf over the gaping privacy issues on the modern web. While I get the intention, it was clearly designed by people who didn't grasp the concept of alarm fatigue and they're usually full of truly obnoxious dark patterns which have nothing to do with informed consent. I block them all and it massively improves the user experience of the web.