And you didn't even touch on the nastiest of the bunch: the "GDPR" dialogs which give you a button "I allow and accept every single piece of tracking" and 600+ individual switches which have a timer of 1 sec on each switch so it would take you hours to opt out of tracking.
Usually you get those over those NYT & Co. articles blasting Googles, Facebooks and others for privacy and tracking.
Most of them seem to allow you to select minimal tracking if you click twice.
Typically there's a button to allow all tracking and one that's non-committal, something like "see my settings". The second one, as you say, brings up 600 switches, but usually the "non-essential" ones are turned off and all you have to do is scroll to the bottom and click "save settings" or something like that.
They are obviously making it more difficult than it has to be, and probably that causes a lot of people to allow all, but once I got the hang of it, it isn't too much trouble.
Yep... and the "by continuing to use this page, you agree...".
"reject all" should be the default option.
But this was messed up horribly from the beginning. Cookies should be disabled (or deleted when closing the tab) by default at the browser side,, with a small button somewhere to enable them for that specific site, and a opup notification to enable them, if the browser detects a login.
Usually you get those over those NYT & Co. articles blasting Googles, Facebooks and others for privacy and tracking.