A while ago, I tried to take a screenshot of all the cookies you could opt in and out of to visit a website (The New European, if memory serves). It took some effort to get it on one image.
The word count of this list was 4-5 times the word count of the article itself.
And I hate to think much energy our collective CPUs waste churning through this nonsense just so a company can spend $0.00000000001 to know that I once visited some blog.
Currys PC World advertising quad-core laptops with 8GB of RAM for "web browsing" because apparently the kind of processing power that would be used for complex weather forecasting a decade ago is what's needed to process the sheer quantity of bullshit on the modern web.
@Rhodium103 ... and then all of our actual actual computations run in the cloud.
