That's a symptom of:

* Stupid webmasters (you don't need that cookie popup for my session cookie)

* Greedy advertisers (that track me) and greedy web publishers that insist on including such privacy-violating scripts and third-parties on their sites

* Sheep user (that have become so accustomed to cookie popups they now just keep pressing the most colorful button)

Long live uBlock origin and its "annoyances" filters.

So it's everybody else's fault BUT that of the actual people who created rules?

I generally agree that the rules were well-intentioned, so now we have seen a bunch of loopholes being exploited (basically dark patterns) so I fully expect the next revision of these rules to come down with improvements that would make the current dark patterns illegal.

> How's that going with the EU cookie legislation?

You mean the twice-amended ePrivacy directive?

I think it's going pretty well, noyb have achieved some fantastic results by pursuing complaints in accordance with the directive: https://noyb.eu/en/noyb-aims-end-cookie-banner-terror-and-is... and https://noyb.eu/en/noyb-files-422-formal-gdpr-complaints-ner...