Cookies banners are malicious compliance. Companies could refrain from doing drive-by data collection of the population, and everyone would be better for it. Bu

Cookies banners are malicious compliance. Companies could refrain from doing drive-by data collection of the population, and everyone would be better for it. But now every website wants to know which fonts I'm using in order to fingerprint me. If they could take a screenshot of my display or record with the mic and the webcam, they'd try to do it too. These behaviors were in the realm of rootkits and other malware and now they're common practice in the industry.