You prefer the alternative, whomever owns the platform wins?
There is a spectrum between everyone votes on everything and yielding everything to our corporate overlords. For example there could be an "I don't care" button which picks one at random.
Cookie banners despite their annoyance are educating people and motivating corps to minimize their PII usage.
In terms of human hours used, it's possibly one of the more expensive education programs ever mandated by a government. And I haven't seen any evidence that it's actually moving corps to minimize their PII usage, since they don't pay the cost in time of having to read the banners.
There is a spectrum between everyone votes on everything and yielding everything to our corporate overlords. For example there could be an "I don't care" button which picks one at random.
Cookie banners despite their annoyance are educating people and motivating corps to minimize their PII usage.