> Every website I visit I need to go adjust cookie settings (enable essential and telemetry and remove targeting). Funny, the most annoying offenders I find my

> Every website I visit I need to go adjust cookie settings (enable essential and telemetry and remove targeting). Funny, the most annoying offenders I find myself just ultimately avoiding. I'm glad. It's a proper chilling effect. The web is a crappy, overweight timesink populated primarily with the most meager scraps of information wrapped in an ad-laden turd sandwich, and all these cookie popups just remind me how much carnival barking and creepy stalking is going on, and I just don't want it. The web was so great in the 1990s, but now it just doesn't deserve my time anymore--ok, HN, har har--and maybe it will just implode....and we can sneak off to something better. Like what? A new kind of BBS, who knows....Imaginations are so weak these days. We couldn't possibly do anything different, or over. Oh wait, those hundreds of billions of dollars aren't going to make themselves.