I've had it up to here _ with cookies.
They are, not only not required by law as was the original justification but skirting human rights globally as well as retarding the human race in accessing information swiftly.
This should have been outlawed a long time ago, but clearly, they have shored up enough funds to bribe easily bribed government such as the USA to prevent this.
The Cookie industry is simply spying to sell your browsing information to marketers. It's as simple as that.
The cookie was invented to save login details and if you do not have an account then they are not required.
What is more, no matter how many times you accept the spying, you are usually asked again the very next time and I don't even know why this is.
Just to make sure it stuck I suppose.
They are simply a revenue stream for more or less anyone without moral standards including all major media outlets.
A blocker would not be in any way breaking any law anywhere and what is happening now is websites are refusing to allow the page to be viewed unless the most intrusive form of cookie is installed.
As a stop gap in the mean time, before they are outlawed, it would be very convenient is there was a button to exclude cookies to be removed from you cookie vault when pressing 'delete all cookies' if you can even find that page in the settings so youtube doesn't have to be logged into again.
I feel this would also give Opera a distinct edge in the browser space and could even be a media story and point of merit to be advertised for your product.
Yours, I'm quite serious about this, Hat.