“You may click to consent to our and our 824 partners’ processing as described above.”

it’s a quirky text transformation website, how did we reach this point?

Looks like it was built by https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=adamvarga but his HN account doesn’t seem active, so he may never see this. Still: hats off to him — the utility-to-bloat ratio here is… mostly good, modulo the 824 “partners.”