You've hit the meat of the issue. The legal process that got us to cookie banners was one of the most fascinating collisions of well-meaning but clueless privac

You've hit the meat of the issue. The legal process that got us to cookie banners was one of the most fascinating collisions of well-meaning but clueless privacy advocates, well-meaning but clueless politicians, and not-particularly-well-meaning-but-very-savvy-about-human-behavior web devs of the 21st century. It was a trainwreck those who knew psychology saw coming from a mile away, watched get worse as the process progressed, and nobody wanted to hear their truth: this wasn't going to work because users don't care enough to disincentivize sites from tracking them.