What is there to be worried about? We just want to collect valid data for our operations and to share with our 21,678 partners. It's basically legitimate interest.

And what most websites doing is actually not allowed according to the GDPR, it's supposed to be a one-click opt-out (which would be easy to automate with a browser extension). Unfortunately, the relevant court is in Ireland, which is the EU's hub for US big tech.

and it made the situation several orders of magnitude worse.

before you just used your favorite plugin and be done with it. you can't do that anymore, because you now have to allow for a cookie saying you don't want their cookies and you have to trust them to respect that. if that cookie is not there, they will bother you for the rest of their lives.

that is ignoring that you would have to individually opt out of every single one of their one million legitimate business partners.

i am using the ublock origin to block the dialogs, but it unfortunately works highly unreliably.

*laughs in noscript*