If you don't click accept on the very first page, websites can't connect you to where you're coming from, which is why they're like that. I mean, in theory the

If you don't click accept on the very first page, websites can't connect you to where you're coming from, which is why they're like that. I mean, in theory they could do that retroactively, but that would be waaay to complex. Popular cookie banners enable services by executing their javascript. There's no event tracking mechanism whatsoever. Cringe fact about cookie banners. It's probably because every engineer spends as little time as possible on it, since it's boring af. It's annoying & boring to implement, and once it's done, annoying to everyone that sees it.