Remember when browsing the web didn't feel like a full-time job? Every single website now hits you with that annoying "accept cookies" popup - thanks to EU regulations that were supposed to protect us but ended up wasting everyone's time instead.

Think about how many collective hours humanity has lost just clicking through these things. We're talking millions of life-seconds vaporized, just gone. And for what? Most people just smash that accept button anyway without reading a word.

This is exactly why the Web3 movement resonates with so many people. Centralized regulations often create more problems than they solve. When bureaucrats thousands of miles away make decisions about how the internet should work, you get this kind of mess - solutions that look good on paper but create terrible user experiences in reality.

The irony? These cookie laws were meant to give users more control over their data. Instead, they just normalized clicking "yes" to everything, which is basically the opposite of informed consent. Maybe it's time we rethink how digital privacy should actually work.