European Union Justice Commissioner Didier Reynders recently told German newspaper 'Welt am Sonntag' that the European Commission is aware of how annoying cookie consent banners have become...
And almost every website ignores it and uses it for extra finger printing. I use it out of spite mostly, the banners are blocked by my ad locker anyways (ublock origin can do it)
It should be just a browser option.
You set cookies on or off, ans the browser sends the option in the headers. Websites just need to take the option from the header instead of a banner.
It already exists and is called “do not track”.
And almost every website ignores it and uses it for extra finger printing. I use it out of spite mostly, the banners are blocked by my ad locker anyways (ublock origin can do it)
There are addons (for firefox at least) where the cookie banner will come up but your browser auotmatically refuses all cookies.
https://consentomatic.au.dk/
This is the one I use. It’s FOSS and developed at a university.