>> Most people do the same thing: sigh, their eyes glaze over, and they click "Accept All" with the muscle memory of a weary soldier.
My instinct is to find the other option is either easy or obfuscated a little bit. But the EU regulation requires that it not take more than 2 clicks to do the other thing.
I thought cookies were kind of evil back in the 1990's and I still think they need to go away entirely.