Huh? Of course those get remembered, and of course it's allowed by GDPR. If the websites you visit don't remember "reject all", they're doing it maliciously (or out of incompetence, I guess).

I'm sure that this time the language will be simple and English-like enough that execs can use it directly, similarly to COBOL and SQL.

There was actually only a short period of time when only write-once DVDs existed. By 2005 just about any computer DVD drive you could buy supported all combinations of {CD,DVD}±{R,RW} that existed. Blank RW disks were, of course, more expensive than R's, though.

Except that according TFA they can actually last thousands of rewrite cycles.

No, this is optical media, rewriting in rust only pertains to magnetic storage.