Which browsers?
> How about an alternative: have a one-click "track me if you want" flag?
That's exactly what I was asking for. It should exist. My theory why it doesn't is that it wouldn't constitute informed case by case consent. So it's illegal.
> Of course it would be terribly naive to think companies would not also just ignore that and track when it isn't set at their convenience
I don't care about that because I want to be tracked, just silently.
If I were to design law I wouldn't ban tracking. I would make sites that do track make the information they have on "me" available to me for viewing and possibly editing at my request.
It wouldn't be even "cookie law" because whatever information you tie and store to whatever identity should be available to this identity.