> nope, any cookie banner is pure cancer

I agree, sites shouldn't be doing the things that require showing one.

> I don't even care about all the dark patterns of now allowing you to dismiss and ignore with one click.

How is this a dark pattern?

> Thank you Europe

Indeed! If such tracking has to be allowed, I'm happy that at least I can opt out of it.

> I agree, sites shouldn't be doing the things that require showing one

Like what, showing ads? Collecting payment from the user in leiu of ads? I wonder what website you're imagining that doesn't do something that requires a cookie consent popup. GeoCities, maybe?

It's perfectly possible to show ads without collecting data about your users; printed publications have done it for ages. Currently the big players are very heavily pushing for a model with ridiculous levels of user tracking (to the point that many people believe ads and user tracking are inseparably connected), but that doesn't mean it's the only possible model.

Print publications give their advertisers detailed demographic data collected via surveys and other techniques. The idea they don't collect data about their readers is wrong.

Tracking is needed for relevant ads. No tracking means you still get ads, just not relevant to your interests

So sites need to have their own in-house advertising platform, I guess, because all of the major advertising platforms assume that they'll be able to keep track of how many unique ad views they're getting.

This is the same Europe that's trying to implement blanket surveillance of all chat communication. Just, you know, by the way. To illustrate how much they actually care about your privacy.

Any popup or obstruction is cancer, cookie consent or otherwise.

We need the same approach as for ad blocking. Just remove the crap from the DOM tree. Block the tracker cookies, based on curated blacklists or heuristics, or both.

We need to take back control of our devices, not leave it to every single website to hopefully obey some law.

Cookies are by far not the only option for tracking. Banners yes, should be blocked from dom if you care, because by gdpr law, no respons means refusing