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That's true, but at least then we could rid the internet of all those shitty cookie consent banners plastered all over. Those are almost more annoying to me than some company making a fraction of a penny on selling my mouse movement history to some chump.

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And that is a different view - I prefer the privacy and no tracking unless I give explicit permissions.

You should ask if true privacy is really possible. Cookies are just the tip of the iceberg. Between IP addresses, browser fingerprinting, unique URLs, and the existence of third parties that correlate information across web sites (mainly ad networks) I'm confident it isn't.

Well then the tracker is breading the GDPR keeping personal identifiable information

https://ico.org.uk/for-organisations/uk-gdpr-guidance-and-re...

Yes US sites will be doing that

Some US sites may bother, many won't. At a small startup, whenever this was discussed, it was decided we had better things to focus on since we had no paying EU customers.

True privacy is not possible if websites truly want to track you. The point of the GDPR is ensuring that legitimate companies operating in the EU will refrain from doing so without consent, because it's against the law and the punishments can be pretty severe. Sadly enforcement has room for improvement.

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