As others have said, I usually click "refuse" or accept the very minimum possible, if it doesn't look fishy. If there's too much work, like I have to uncheck e

As others have said, I usually click "refuse" or accept the very minimum possible, if it doesn't look fishy. If there's too much work, like I have to uncheck every one of a zillion boxes, or if there's the trustarc or what's-it-called that needs to "work on it" for 10 minutes, I just leave the site. I do this in the hopes that someone in marketing looks at the stats of people specifically refusing, takes note, and maybe comes up with something less invasive. Or at least realizes there's a market for that. There is one site on which I don't do this, jeuxvideo.com. It's a French video game review site. They present a choice: "accept tracking" or "pay for a subscription". I only go there once in a blue moon, so a subscription wouldn't make sense for me. Plus, their ads aren't particularly intrusive (with UBlock on, but on MS Edge - which I barely use, since it runs on my gaming PC) so I figure it's fair. Most sites that present the cookie banned don't usually have a subscription-based alternative.