Providers made those banners big, annoying, and full of dark patterns because they want you to agree to those cookies. They didn't have to have a bunch of check boxes right next to an "Accept All" button--this was a conscious choice by those providers. You are being targeted by malicious compliance so you dislike the thing that they want gone. This is a sucker's game, and you are falling for the okeydoke.
"Europe" didn't make the Web worse. People who won't stop tracking you because it is worth nanocents to them to do so did, and this is how they're fighting people who are trying to stop them.
Some of us don't give a shit about tracking and are forced to go through all those stupid banners. So yes, I blame the EU. There should be some HTTP header that you could set to say that you accept everything. It's opt-in so the EU bureaucrats should be OK with it.
The GDPR covers the intent and processing of the data rather than any specific technical means - it's not limited to cookies. Please see my other comment for why implementing that in-browser is not feasible: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30964163
Providers made those banners big, annoying, and full of dark patterns because they want you to agree to those cookies. They didn't have to have a bunch of check boxes right next to an "Accept All" button--this was a conscious choice by those providers. You are being targeted by malicious compliance so you dislike the thing that they want gone. This is a sucker's game, and you are falling for the okeydoke.
"Europe" didn't make the Web worse. People who won't stop tracking you because it is worth nanocents to them to do so did, and this is how they're fighting people who are trying to stop them.