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This is great information!
I haven't seen ads in years (thanks ublock origin), but the wiki fandom pages are by far the absolute worst when it comes to the cookie consent pop up, they have no "reject all", and it seems like you have to scroll on forever manually deselecting dozens and dozens of individual tick boxes, I won't even click through to that site anymore, it's enraging.
Just had a quick look for my recent addiction, the Alto's mobile games, and neither are on there, but say Sims is, so I guess they didn't just copy all the fandom pages, and are doing it by demand, or popularity? Either way, it's better than no alternative to the fandom wikis, so I'll take it!
If you're already using uBlock Origin, you can add a list called EasyList Cookie under Filters > Annoyances and also not see most cookie consent popups for years.
I just always click "accept all" and have my browser purge all cookies on exit other than a few whitelisted sites. And I have various plugins to block the flagrant cross-site tracking services. Same thing I did before the EU did their cookie directive.
I don't think that the EU's actual intent behind the cookie directive was to literally provide a UI to reject cookies, because trusting the remote end rather than your local browser is kind of fundamentally a broken security model. I think that their aim was to try to increase public awareness of all the cookies that websites are storing by having websites constantly throw up dialogs talking about them.
Honestly, if a site doesn't make it convenient for me to reject their bullshit, I'm happy to look elsewhere, there's very little information nowadays you can't find on at least a couple of sites, and for anything else, there are communities to ask.
And you're probably right - I don't really trust that my selections are respected (both on individual sites and on my browser), and often wonder if it's just an illusion of choice more than anything else, but I'd still rather have it than not.
My plan is to eventually set up a pi-hole and be done with much of this noise, but I've decided it'll have to wait for when I upgrade to a new machine which I hope to set up much better than this one lol