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You can just not accept cookies.
Uh huh. Considering you don't live in an EU country, and by your statements I highly doubt you've ever interacted with GDPR in any way especially on the business side... It's safe to disregard your fortune cookies.
Yeah... After the GDPR became a thing
? You know Firefox can just deny them
Yes, but it's all or nothing with that, what the GDPR forced websites to do is ask what the cookies are being used for and allow users to more granularly choose which ones they're ok with keeping, for example by disabling cookies altogether you wouldn't be able to keep your sessions after you log in, you close the tab and you have to log in again every single time
Sounds like a bad browser. Lynx lets you accept/reject each cookie individually.
That's actually neat, but pointing to that as a solution would be scummy on the companies' side, forcing you to figure out the purpose of each cookie is very anti-consumer
Any site offering more than 3 cookies (upon login/action, 0 otherwise) immediately loses the privilege.
The biggest browser is also written by an advertising company, and that setting conveniently disappeared more than a decade ago.