Ask HN: Does any one click decline for the EU cookie usage policy?

Not an answer, but: I'm fine with the cookies, but the banners piss me off no end. I won't ask the question on any site I run, lawyers be damned.

Yes, but for the unique reason that I have worked on web tracking analytics packages and they are terrifying.

From what I have seen working on those packages, the vast majority of users do not care, or do not understand what they are in for and will say "Sure, track me, what's the worst that could happen?"

We used the dreaded zombie-cookies to track when users would hit our pages and to track their passage across content because it gave us a lot more information on how our products were used, and as such gave us a lot of information to hand over to marketing to up our lead gen strategies. From there, we could wow investors.

From a company perspective, we loved that most users would blindly click yes. Enough did so that we never even bothered looking into the minority that opted for do not track.

Yes, there are several browser plugin to do that. But blocking cookies doesnt mean that websites wont serve you ad. Its just that ads may be less personalized. Some companies have been using device fingerprinting rather cookie, so u may still see personalized ads from them. Better do an ad opt out from links like adobe, google or ad choice. But all of them are very ticky and uses cookies.

I ignore it until I need to read what is behind them. Then I block the elements with ublock. I don't think I ever agreed.