I mean, i have noticed the HN crowd to be trigger happy against paywall popups, imagine if you prevent them from getting to their favorite site every time.
They can use cookies all day long. If I don't grant them permission, then I can accept it, but complain about it. But if I click "allow", I feel that they take away my moral right to complain about it.
It's like being pat down / searched by the police. It is annoying, but I'd let it happen, because they probably have good reasons to do it - but I'd still be grumpy about it, and if it happens too often, I'd protest. But if I had to sign a waiver that gave them explicit permission to do so, then I'd have a much worse standing if I wanted to complain.
Does anyone understand what I mean?
I've also come to hate "truste", whatever company/CDN/thing that is, solely because their Cookie-dialog is one of those offenders that I see the most.
Cookies are the wrong target, and the EU knows it. It's a matter of wanting to be seen doing something, rather than actually doing something useful. Their grasp on technology is ridiculously poor.