Or I could just not give the popup and track you anyway. Nothing is stopping me (yeah the law will stop me haha).

Unless of course you block me from your browser, then I can't do anything.

You may also shoot me, law doesn’t stop you from doing that.

Sure, but why prefer a law over a technical solution?

Because it’s not always easy to see the technical solution.

Trying to say that the law is bad because it doesn’t conform to some idealised version of it you had in your head doesn’t mean the law is bad.

Konsoolo is right, this is the most stupid solution they could possibly come with. Every time I enter a website, I see the bloody useless cookie banner. Those who designed this law have no idea how people behave on the internet. Nobody is going to read a cookie policy on every single website they enter, people want to get to the content they are looking for as quickly as possible. Privacy controls should be available at a browser level, so that 1) you don't force me to accept/refuse each time, disrupting the user experience 2) I am not going to lose all settings if someone from customer support suggests to delete cookies 3) I only set my preferences once, instead of having to decide a million times. The outcome of this stupid regulation is that website owner can still find a million ways to trick users with all sorts of dark patterns and subtle manipulation of language, and users have no way to defend their privacy unless they are willing to spend time understanding the working of this on each website they visit.

Hahaha, the GDPR law itself is idealised! You have a weird take on the whole situation.