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There's still enough people who do not understand the consequences and just click "accept all", because they fear their computer will catch on fire and murder their pets otherwise.

Coincidentally, those people are also the most susceptible to advertisement-driven brain washing and least likely to understand what adblockers are.

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I’ve seen hardcore developers telling others on calls to always click ‘accept all’ just because of the potential friction of an other click when rejecting. I don’t think they even had an adblocker in their Chrome.

Hardcore developers != A knowledge about the internet/how front end works. I don't think it's even a point to mention at all. I picked up programming 6 years before I got access to the internet, in 2015. Computing has developed so much these days, it's like expecting a Neuro to be your Oncologist. They may know basically how stuff works, but not everything related to a computer.

Sure. It’s just that if developers (just adding these were web devs) don’t know or care then for the common folks this might be completely hopeless.

Or use an extension that does "accept all" for them, like I don’t care about cookies.

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