First, cookie banners are not "perceived as excessive EU regulation", but as bad and unenforcable (unenforced?) regulation. There is a difference!
"the tracking industry is so terrified of consumers being able to simply say ‘no’ that, after a bit of lobbying, everyone gives in." -> if you expect the corporations to behave irrationally (i.e. not lobbying for their interests), you are going to have a bad time - as demonstrated by cookie banners. Why not put pressure on those in the EU who were bought by Google and Meta?
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