This stuff is why I've moved over to the idea that governments doing nudges[1] is worse than just outright passing laws and polices to tell people what they hav

This stuff is why I've moved over to the idea that governments doing nudges[1] is worse than just outright passing laws and polices to tell people what they have to do. In the case of cookies, pass laws forbidding collecting personal data. Done. Bonus getting to hear tech bro's whine they broke the law and can't go to Europe anymore. [1] Thaler and Sunstein: any aspect of the choice architecture that alters people’s behavior in a predictable way without forbidding any options or significantly changing their economic incentives.