Furthermore, despite Do Not Track being an obvious and strong indication of user intent, website owners want to hassle you anyway on the off chance you fallaciously "consent" from fatigue/accident/coercion/etc. It's like those business bros that just keep pushing after you say no (respecting boundaries is for suckers, amirite), but since it's in the automated digital world think of it as yet another "dark pattern" if you must. Every cookie banner is essentially the site giving a giant middle finger to the user, but the surveillance industry has been adept at getting users to uncritically attribute them to the existence of privacy regulation rather than their own shitty behaviors. Part of which is this continued myopic focus on "cookies" when modern privacy regulation functions independent of the specific tracking mechanisms.