The reality is very simple: I don't want any website (except those where I choose to sign-up and sign-in with a personal account) or any of its partners or whoever to save any data about me and provide any kind of "personalization" (I have even set up an extension to delete all the relevant cookies as soon as I close a page). And now I have a right to demand this yet the sites choose to annoy me by requiring to disable every piece of this crap manually before letting me in. GDPR does not allow them to just deny me entering if I don't allow tracking but it seemingly does allow them to annoy me and I'm sure they're doing it as annoying as possible intentionally.

By the way there even is a simple standardized way to know if I give my consent for tracking me or not without asking - the Do Not Track HTTP header field. That's a pity Microsoft has screwed it by turning it on by default. I wish GDPR would just require every website to respect this flag.