Exactly. The great thing about cookies is that they are a tool, completely in the hand of the user. The site gives you a piece of text and says "show this to me

Exactly. The great thing about cookies is that they are a tool, completely in the hand of the user. The site gives you a piece of text and says "show this to me next time if you want me to remember you". And then the browser can choose to continue to use them or not. Such a weird choice to put the onus on the websites to ask whether to give the cookies, rather than the browser to ask whether to save them. I'm a big supporter of privacy legislation like the GDPR, but this is asinine, as it needs me to trust every website I visit to actually honor my choice. Really, the original sin of cookies is that were designed to be transparent to user. That was a mistake that promptly needs to be rectified.