>Like can browsers notify you about cookies instead in a non-intrusive way They absolutely can, and they absolutely can be our user agents for maintaining cook

>Like can browsers notify you about cookies instead in a non-intrusive way They absolutely can, and they absolutely can be our user agents for maintaining cookie whitelists, blacklists, with a consistent UI for being notified a site uses cookies and if we want to allow them. But they don't do that. It would have been 1000x more user-friendly and convenient for our user agents to behave like actual agents, filtering cookies for us, instead of 1000 different flavors of invasive cookie banners and "necessary cookie" notices. But the EU lawmakers didn't want that, or perhaps they just didn't understand the problem enough.