Is the purpose of the prompt itself not to invade your attention to make a decision on whether you want them or not?

Likewise, how does the prompt invade your privacy if you don't act upon it?

Before the prompts, situation was not good, but I could delete browser history and what not. After the prompts, I still need to delete browser history, but I can't delete memories of prompts from my mind. Every time I see a cookie prompt, I get traumatized. Prompt blockers do not work reliably. I don't want to read about cookies, GDPR, EU, whatever every time I see a random web page. I remember the old internet.