"We use cookies on this site! Read our Cookie-policy mambo jumbo here! <dismiss>"
Enable cookies at that point then, don't turn them on globally for everyone.
> Blame the stupid EU cookie law for that though, not the sites.
If every site didn't turn on cookies by default as if they're somehow needed to read a text page a didn't contain a billion trackers then there would have been no law in the first place.
The need for this law lies squarely at the feet of the sites themselves, the industry has shown no desire to regulate itself.
Prior to that you could just disable them if you liked.
One can say that policy makers had good intentions - certainly. However, I can not imagine a valid evaluation that wouldn't conclude this policy as failure.
The browser not being able to distinguish between essential and non-essential cookies does not change the fact that cookies are and were entirely voluntary.
http://prebake.eu/ https://www.i-dont-care-about-cookies.eu/ https://github.com/r4vi/block-the-eu-cookie-shit-list
AFAIK some prominent cookie notices are also part of the Fanboy Annoyances list: https://easylist.to/
The only prominent nags that are not very well targeted with those lists are in webapps like reddit mobile. Primarily because of their dynamic, non-descriptive ids.