Eliminating popups and observing DNT would defeat the primary purpose of cookie popups: to annoy the user and lead them to believe that GDPR et al. are not in their interest.
It’s the expected result cause GDPR creators are living under an effing rock. Working in peoples interest and being completely clueless are orthogonal things.
> There is no reason why a website should be able to track from the first second that easily
There's one big reason for that: The world's most popular browser and search engine both make their money by tracking you from the first second to the last
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[ 3.3 ms ] story [ 25.0 ms ] threadEliminating popups and observing DNT would defeat the primary purpose of cookie popups: to annoy the user and lead them to believe that GDPR et al. are not in their interest.
Most advertisers/tracking companies/websites using such products simply ignored it (due to their fears of revenue loss) and it withered on the vine.
There is no reason why a website should be able to track from the first second that easily
There's one big reason for that: The world's most popular browser and search engine both make their money by tracking you from the first second to the last