> if browsers simply treated cookies the same way they treat your location/microphone/camera The GDPR has nothing to do with cookies - things that you can't co

> if browsers simply treated cookies the same way they treat your location/microphone/camera The GDPR has nothing to do with cookies - things that you can't control such as browser fingerprinting or IP addresses are also covered by data processing consent forms. In fact, cookies are already pretty much useless for tracking anyway given that most browsers have strong countermeasures against them.