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Yep. It's also interesting to see teams have conversations about implementing these things without anyone mentioning how creepy it seems. I guess these things are just normalized now :/
Entirely depends on the group. I've been in meetings with developers where we agreed it was creepy and pushed back. I've also been in meetings with marketing where they said it was normal, and meetings with others who said it was the cost the user paid to use our website. Ignoring of course that we sold stuff on the website, and that part of it was a management system that the users actually paid us money to use.
They stopped giving me those projects, which was a win for me but arguably a loss for the users.
I did though for a bit convince people that it was worthwhile to fix the accept/reject not working right, but that it wasn't a top priority to fix the reject button disabling tracking for all users of the site for the duration of the cookie. (Cookie stored "be creepy" flag. When the user clicked the button it stored a flag in the session so we could statistics, and then read the flag to set the cookie. Someone used the wrong session value and stuck it in the global store used to cache sitewide data, so when it went to see if they opted out it would see if anyone had in the last month. They fixed it after the data was all fucky for a few months and they realized my argument of "who would opt out? It's just the way the Internet works" was extremely wrong and no one will ever complain about being opted out of tracking)