alt Hacker News> Cookie permissions are unnecessary. Signing up for an email newsletter is unnecessary.
They are necessary, as in: without them the creator perhaps wouldn’t be able to justify running the website.
As long as users visit websites with poor ux and show no preference versus websites with good ux, there will reliably be websites with poor ux.
Running the website isn’t necessary. These people should try not running any websites for a bit.
It was just fine when most websites were academic or hobby content, not businesses.