Dubbing this “cookie consent” is almost conspiracy level misguiding of the public by advertisers. It’s not about cookies at all, they’re fine, it’s about using

Dubbing this “cookie consent” is almost conspiracy level misguiding of the public by advertisers. It’s not about cookies at all, they’re fine, it’s about using those cookies to track people around the internet and sell their data. Frustratingly it seems to have worked. Recently I had to explain cookies vs tracking to a data protection analyst at work.