For the past 10 years or so tracking is done with hardware fingerprinting anyways. Cookies are of the past.
this post was submitted on 10 Sep 2026
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I am in favour. Until then you can use consent-o-mattic to actively deny cookies instead of just hiding the element.
Denying consent is just 1 part of the puzzle. You will still be accepting all "legitimate interests".
I hope this becomes mandatory, I think DNT failed because it wasn't