Those are (nice) solutions to a problem that shouldn't be allowed to (legally) exist. The industry shouldn't be allowed to play clever with the ways to coerce their users into giving up their information just because they know that most of those users are not interested in navigating difficult dialogs.

They shouldn't be allowed, and they aren't allowed. Actually the new digital services act [0] is shaping up to clarify these, but IIRC there have also been first cases decided in courts.

[0]: https://edri.org/our-work/the-eu-parliament-takes-strong-sta...

This particular behavior is actually illegal. GDPR [Recital 32] clearly states that "Consent should be given by a clear affirmative act <...> Silence, pre-ticked boxes or inactivity should not therefore constitute consent."

[Recital 32]: https://gdpr-info.eu/recitals/no-32/

This is more of a workaround.

A solution to a poliical problem is political, not technical.

i would call it societal; society still needs to grasp in what way they are being exploited. it's still not clear to most people

How is it political?

The decision to force service providers collect consent from their own users is a political decision.

And a fundamentally bad one: providers' incentive is to make it easy to get consent and hard to refuse.

I don't know what policy is better than this, but right now, we only get more annoyance without any benefits in privacy. Pretty much every page I've visited issues 3rd party requests before I consent to data sharing.