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If you don't like cookies and don't want to be tracked, perhaps you should disable all cookies in your browser.

It's really simple, you'll get no more cookies ever. That tracking vector is totally disabled and you have full control over it. There's absolutely no need for a cookie banner for a person to be free of cookies.

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/block-websites-storing-...

Which isn't helping [0], cookies are just a more convenient shortcut for fingerprinting, and GDPR is not against cookies but tracking and profile building so prevents those too. The removal of cookies by the majority of people would bring up "Fingerprint banners"

[0] "Yes! You are unique among the 2926891 fingerprints in our entire dataset." https://amiunique.org/fingerprint

Ironic that this site, attempting to raise awareness about online privacy issues, has a cookie banner...

That site is truly scary...

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