Time and drain on my patience is a cost. And it is a particularly awful trade in this case; both of those are extremely precious resources, one of which is nonrenewable.

I do not care about cookies. Not one person on the Internet can demonstrate a concrete harm caused by the existence of advertiser cookies on their machine. If you want to spend time twiddling these knobs, more power to you. I've got things to do and I will gladly take the first option that erases the annoyance with a minimum of disruption.

Sad that you have no spare effort-capacity whatsoever to make a choice for yourself like this, that you see yourself as at zero! Woe unto you.

I dont get why this proclaimed unwillingness & lack of deciding leads you to pick the worse less defensive pick though. Why actively choose worse defense? I dont get your argumentation. Why is the worse dumber pick better for you, even if you dont feel convinced of the harm? Presented with a defensive & apathetic option, I don't see why you would still choose worse.

FWIW, I agree. Be the change you want to see in the world.

'Actively not caring' is insidious and depressing. It normalises data surveillance and says there's no point fighting it.

Comments here seem to ask if cookies are really worth all this fuss. Frankly, I don't think it's much of a fuss at all. Block the pop-ups, auto-delete the cookies. It's so simple I'm bemused there's any pushback.

And thanks for the links to those extensions :)

Then you care about cookies and this extension isn't for you.

Its a mindflip to me to imagine wanton anti-caring like this. Literally just make an incredibly smallley modestly better choice to serve yourself & each other better. Why not pick a good option? Why go through the trouble then be like, fuck it, Ill pick a shitty option? I dont get the anti-progressive pro-shitty attitude. But it sure seems popular & well represented! Blast us all!

> Why not pick a good option? Why go through the trouble then be like, fuck it, Ill pick a shitty option?

You're assuming way too much active thought and choice on the part of the people who don't care about cookies. You're assuming that it was a choice between options at all. In my case, a website I was happening to read mentioned the I Don't Care About Cookies extension, and I thought, "oh, it'd be nice to have something that stops all of those annoying cookie pop-ups" and installed it. That is all. Is such an action really an "anti-progressive and pro-shitty attitude"? Am I really harming you or myself or society by doing that?

I have two browsers. One is my persistent logins browser (Mail, banking, etc). The other is my "browsing" browser which is inside of a windows VM that gets restarted and reverted every morning at 4 AM.

It blows my mind that you'd have such disregard for your own personal data protection by not implementing a similar system. Why not spend half a day setting up something that solves the problem long term without depending on you to consciously make the "right" decision over and over?