The current owner bought the domain when it was available, and since they dont own the previous content they wont post it. They do have a notice asking the original owner to contact them though. /u/DavidGA did post that theres https://html5zombo.com/ which seems to be the OG content

Zombocom

You could do anything at Zombo-com

I really wish I never heard about that fascist ever again. He should fade into obscurity

as others have said they can be used to help remember stuff like log-in status, but also stuff like what you put in your shopping cart if you leave and return.

Now you also mentioned tracking, and yes, thats why you are asked to accept them now. websites and marketers use cookies to track all kinds of things about who you are, where youve been, and what you do so they can target ads to you. This can be info like where you are located in the world, in your country, even in your state. What OS you use, what browser you use, the size of your screen. And if you log into the same sites on your phone then they get all that info too.

There have been massive lawsuits about the dossier different companies built using these tracker cookies and even today it is very difficult to remain truly anonymous online because everything is tracked, legally or otherwise.

The premise that the people want to go after the rich ‘to fix broken budgets’ is absurd. The rich must pay their fair share. Separately many budgets can be improved, but saying one is only sought to do the other is wrong