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There is too much to gain from tracking website visitors. Most companies that run websites would rather subject visitors to the pop-up in order to satisfy the

• swiftcoder 5y ago
  The blame is at least partly on the economic models of the modern web. Tracking increases the payout of ads, ads are the main source of revenue... cookie popups allow this all to continue. Without a fundamental reshaping of the web economy, this isn't likely to change.
  • ReleaseCandidat 5y ago
    > Without a fundamental reshaping of the web economy That's actually quite easy: leave any webpage with cookie banners as fast as possible. Or at least disable everything.
    • necovek 5y ago
      That's exactly what makes it hard: you need everybody to do the same (ok, a majority, but that's not as dramatic :)).
      • ReleaseCandidat 5y ago
        Of course that's true too :) The problem is that most people blame 'the EU'.
• tunap 5y ago
  To add to that, the world's economy depends on capital growth, at any cost(pun intended). Considering the blow to GDP if those trillions disappeared, the governments & policy makers would never let that happen.