There's just one unintended benefit: when I'm looking for in-depth information on a subject, I've found that the presence of a cookie popup seems to correlate with a site containing only superficial information; it's an indicator that the site's primary purpose is harvesting eyeballs rather than imparting knowledge, so I should keep looking.

Yes we are: we know now which companies that are assholes instead of it being a secret.

We know:

- the ones that track you

- the ones that track you and use a cookie banner but no allow DNT, annoying you for no good reason

- the ones that track you and use a dark pattern

That's a good way to avoid their product.

Let the bastards self identify loud and clear.

Have you noticed that HN doesn't have a cookie banner?

"I reject everything non essential"

Has to be as easily clickable as the "accept all" button, otherwise sites are not compliant

There are browser extensions like "I don't care about cookies" who click "reject all" before you even see the popup, on every single website.

Works really well for me.

I just adblock those like i do for every other popup