Sorry, I should have said "if one has a mandate…", I meant the "royal you". The mandate I'm referring to is GDPR and CCPA, where a quick read might lead one to

Sorry, I should have said "if one has a mandate…", I meant the "royal you". The mandate I'm referring to is GDPR and CCPA, where a quick read might lead one to think that no cookies can be used and that every possible way that someone might think they are being tracked has to be acknowledged, so the websites err on the side of over notification. This is just as much legislators not understanding anything about technology and technologists trying to both the minimum required and meet the letter of the law. It's not a good situation.