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Do "non-essential" cookies actually make my experience any better? I always decline and haven't noticed a difference from the pre-GDPR days.
All this to avoid users just setting their browsers to discard cookies according to their wishes, an ability they’ve had for a decade or more.
I find these cookie banners twice as annoying as ads ever were.
It is a roundabout way of saying that “if you accept we will get some additional data that will influence our decision-making”. Which in turn could help prioritise bugs and features related to what you did when visiting the site.
On rare occasions, it can have direct influence, such as if you are searching for an ambiguous term we could forward the product categories you browsed recently to a third party search engine for different weights on the results. This actually has a positive effect with higher click-through on results, fewer searches, and click position nearer the top.