"Max Hills has been working on #cookie #consent. In last year’s #WEIS, Daniel Woods and Rainer Boehme investigated the commodification of consent: some companies trade consents to manipulate their stats. Max has found that many consents are provided by third parties, one of whom processes more than 25 billion consents a year. On average, these take just over 3.2 second, so this company #wasted 2,500 years of people’s lives."

Ross Anderson
https://www.lightbluetouchpaper.org/2021/06/28/weis-2021-liveblog/#comment-2139054