I'd rather not go to a website because I won't pay, than refuse their cookies and have them track me anyway through "legitimate reason".

If you feel extorted you may need to get off the internet and breathe some fresh air. I'm sure you can live juste fine without going to those extorting website.

Quality cost money to produce. If we want to prevent the massive enshitification we may have to question the way we consume internet and re-think the "everything is free" mantra.

Maybe they "encrypt" it in jpg? XD

"Do I waste my time doing that? " "you must decide yourself if that will waste your time"

Thank you, you're very useful.

That's the only honest way to deal with it. They need money.