Comment by rmonvfer

I’m 26, probably terminally online and a professional software engineer too and I just accept cookies every single time because it’s the lowest friction path to just get the banner out of the way. Too bad for those sites tho, because I use uBlock origin on the browser, whitelist cookies by site (all cookies are otherwise always blocked everywhere) and use an always-on VPN to route all my network traffic to my PiHole DNS server.

Maybe it’s a little bit overkill but I set it all up once and only have to whitelist sites every once in a while so it’s not really an annoyance. Besides, I’m not 100% sure now but I’d say that just using uBlock is enough (if properly configured) to prevent cookie-based tracking so my setup is definitely over-engineered.