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> the EU drives regulation to enforce seeking consent as a mandatory step

EU doesn't enforce popups that take half page space though, web sites added them.

> followed by browsers like brave programmatically defeating the ability of companies to seek consent?

followed by the choice of the user to automatically deny consent to those asking for it using annoying popups.

FTFY

it's like ad blocking, I don't want to consent to data collection or see ads and I automatically deny the permission and block ads.

It's a default, chosen by users, you can opt out, which in this case means you're opting in for choosing to which site give your consent.




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