Internet's biggest annoyance: Cookie laws should target browsers, not websites

The problem here is not the law, but malicious compliance by websites that don't want to give up tracking.

"Spend Five Minutes in a Menu of Legalese" is not the intended alternative to "Accept All". "Decline All" is! And this is starting to be enforced through the courts, so you're increasingly seeing the "Decline All" option right away. As it should be. https://www.techspot.com/news/108043-german-court-takes-stan...

Of course, also respecting a Do-Not-Track header and avoiding the cookie banner entirely while not tracking the user, would be even better.

The irony being this site doesn't offer a decline all option.

My default firefox settings rejected content tracker and in the end no cookies were created at all, plus there was just one failed CDN request outside original domain.

Not bad.

Don't worry, you are still being tracked by IP + browser fingerprinting... and using a browser with a low single-digit marketshare stands out like a sore thumb.

(which is also why framing GDPR discussions around cookies misses the point - the point is to determine the user's consent to being tracked regardless of technical ability, whether cookies, IP address, fingerprinting, or even some magic crystal ball)