If Chrome made denied cookies by default and required an explicit opt-in caused by a user action (basically deter un-prompted cookie prompts like we managed to deter popups) then that would change very quickly. I wonder why they don't?

I have my browser setup to delete cookies each time I close it. And I run ad, tracker, and script blockers on top of that.

So do you just deal with logging in every time on every website when you open your browser again?

A password manager really helps here, yes.

The downside is that I always see the cookie banners, which I mostly try to ignore but some of them block most of the page.