> Cookies can actually be very user/privacy friendly, since they provide a way to retain user preferences without requiring an account to tie them to.
Enable cookies at that point then, don't turn them on globally for everyone.
> Blame the stupid EU cookie law for that though, not the sites.
If every site didn't turn on cookies by default as if they're somehow needed to read a text page a didn't contain a billion trackers then there would have been no law in the first place.
The need for this law lies squarely at the feet of the sites themselves, the industry has shown no desire to regulate itself.
Enable cookies at that point then, don't turn them on globally for everyone.
> Blame the stupid EU cookie law for that though, not the sites.
If every site didn't turn on cookies by default as if they're somehow needed to read a text page a didn't contain a billion trackers then there would have been no law in the first place.
The need for this law lies squarely at the feet of the sites themselves, the industry has shown no desire to regulate itself.