[emacdona]

One thousand percent yes. And I'll repeat because people need to see it called out as often as possible: this is due to malicious compliance by websites. Period.

I'm so cynical now that I can't read articles like this without my first reaction being to look at how it benefits companies that profit from ads.

My two theories here?

1. An attempt to shift liability from companies having to comply with GDPR to browsers having to comply.

2. An attempt to consolidate all cookie consent into the three (?) browser engines we have... so efforts to thwart it can be focused on just those places.