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I really don't, I definitely get annoyed at the website, and I get way more annoyed at websites which make it hard to say no to the cookies easily.

Nada? It's made huge changes in how businesses use ad tech. And yes, I work as a martech consultant.

Pre-2018 nobody cared about sharing data with third parties. Today nobody wants to be this company. https://www.nrk.no/kultur/nettapotek-delte-med-facebook-at-d...

Ymmv, but nada is categorically wrong.

Eh true. I wonder how that is different than, say, the tracking notifications that Apple added to iOS. Consumer choice maybe?

I guess they can also enforce a good UX by controlling what is listed/installable on the play store, so apps can’t maliciously comply.

Regulators are being slow, but with GDPR you can also not maliciously comply. You can get fined for that and slowly regulators are starting to so that

I always get annoyed at the website.

To the point where I'll click away if they don't give me a way to opt out, or if I feel like they're taking the mickey too much. All those cookery websites that are so snooty about cookies as if there weren't 10 more similar websites where they came from...