Honest question: why are cookie consent popups a thing? They create the worst browsing experience and I find them more annoying than anything else.
Because the law was rushed and some other law improvements that were suggested were not published because it would affect ad companies too much.
I think this is the worst thing that happened to web privacy and UX. Now everyone just clicks ACCEPT to any cookie policy and the non-technical users also automatically click accept on location or push notifications requests.
Yeah. I think a better approach would be to ban all forms of tracking that don't involve cookies. Then we can trust users to choose browsers that can alert about cookies appropriately, block third party cookies, and clear first party cookies after visiting a site unless it's whitelisted by the user.
Because as far as I know it doesn't use cookies or similar technologies for advertising/tracking/analytics purposes. The only cookies it uses are functional (the logged in user's session) and those don't require disclosure nor consent.