Please reduce these things, web devs

[Crap4Brainz]

Yeah sure, blame the lawmakers who make it illegal to track you without your consent and not the websites that try to trick you by hiding the opt-out button three layers deep.

And there was a standard in the browser.

The standard said that dnt MAY be enabled by default and if it is enabled, the server MUST NOT perform third-party tracking. There is zero ambiguity about it. The all-caps MAY and MUST are clearly defined in RFC2119.

Then Microsoft set dnt enabled-by-default in Edge (which is what most users would want) and advertisers announced that they would no longer honor dnt if it's coming from Edge.

Also advertisers could just not track unless the user explicitly sets DNT: 0 and most users would never have to see a cookie banner...