Exactly. I tried to go back with browser's Back button, and the annoying dialog comes up again.. So effectively the only option is to accept their cookies.
I know it's not really the point here, but a workaround: use Private Browsing/Incognito and accept the cookies from there. They'll disappear when you finish your session.
But this is a technical author blogging for other techies, such hacks shouldn't be necessary in the first place.
I'm always worried that a site will treat that as acceptance of fingerprinting and then treat that as consent when they see my browser/IP again in non private browsing.
Interesting idea, I wonder if any sites do this.
You can also just delete the modal cookie dialog in the inspector toolbar.
True! In my case I was on an iPad so I ended up using Safari’s “Reader View” as a workaround.