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The part about having a genuine choice is basically ignoring the choice of not interacting with the website beyond reading the cookie message. I understand that it's a shitty choice but it's at least there. This essentially forces the site owner to provide content without it's side of the terms being allowed to be required.

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That's not true. It forces the site owner to provide content under its own terms as long as its terms does not involve non necessary functionalities provided by other companies. You can still enforce you own terms, but you can't enforce the GAFA cookies at the same time.

Said otherwise, your terms of service must be privacy-sensible, which is indeed the very goal of the law.

It's a shitty choice, which is exactly why it is not a genuine choice.

And yes, that is exactly what it does. That is the point. We have decided that that is a good thing to require.

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