"Me see."

"Me think me understand things well enough."

"Me can't believe me going to say this, but...me reject your cookies."

"Convenience is most effective form of coercion."

One of the benefits of firefox and it's derivatives:

https://www.firefox.com/en-US/features/total-cookie-protection/

Yes sites can save cookies on your PC, but it stops sites from looking at each other's cookies.

“I’m not the monster here.”

Then these sites start playing Bill Wurtz's "How about I do it anyway?".

I mean, apart from simply getting your digital fingerprint via other means, quite a lot of them hide the options so that you would have to painstakingly click/tap through a mountain of toggles.

I have had to do this with several Android games: You can kind of disable most cookie types with one toggle, EXCEPT the one that says "legitimate interest". Since I wanted to know what exactly they might mean by that, I tapped the tiny question mark circle thing. Guess what: the tooltip just simply said something like 'data that falls under our partner's legitimate interest'. And then, if you want to disable it, the only way to do it is tap something like 'Vendor options', and then see about 117 vendors, and ~85 of those have a toggle next to their name. You have to click each and every one of those.

...until the next update, when this window comes up again, waiting for you to give up.

Personally I use consent-o-matic (which automatically refuse cookies) + Librewolf's opt-in cookies. That'll teach them

"Ok, then we will track you anyway server side by linking your account activity to your ip address, no cookies"

Cookies are such a 2010 tracking method.

Google uses browser profiling and IP triangulation to track you now. If you're not defeating both of those, tell Big G that I said hi.

Oh how things change

He should be constantly enraged that they aren't real cookies. He keeps getting tricked and finally snaps, letting the monster out.

I eat my own ass worth of cookies every day abd I hardly ever bothered to what it cones to be in as it were to be, even.

In this world of false plenty... Even the cookie monster has learned restraint.

God help us all.

Was going to ask OP to link the source (found here) until I checked the username against the URL and realized this is actually the OOP.