100%. This also bugs me: Why can’t websites set a cookie that stores whether I’ve consented to the cookie pop up? On some sites I have to keep consenting over and over (IKEA comes to mind).
I think ignorance is part of it, but also, they don’t actually want to do what users want them do to, which is just not track unless the user goes looking for options that actually require tracking at a technical level.
Let’s see… I can’t even stop Marketing from breaking our site with Google Tag Manager.
A significant portion of our sales come from the ability to track users and email them useful product recommendations.
We do not sell customer data and try to avoid vendors who do. It’s only used internally.
No, I don't care that one user created the Math forum and another created the Sysadmin forum, it's all run by you Jeff, that's who I am engaging when clicking the popup, not MathFan1982