just ignore the 200 cookie warnings every citizen sees per day
Would you rather be ignorant of the fact that you're being tracked with 200 cookies? Why is it the EU's fault that companies have so much tracking?
Perhaps you should complain to the companies that are sending you the cookies and not the EU that's simply bringing to light a shady business practice.
Yes? I know I'm tracked and I know I can do nothing about it besides accepting the annoying cookie warning, so it's pretty much meaningless unless there is option Reject All. If you must always allow at least "essential" cookies them it's while warning meaningless.
Either show me no warning or give me Reject all button, nothing in between, otherwise it just shows your incompetence to solve the problem.
It's as meaningful as permanent sign "There is traffic jam on this road", though that sign one would be less annoying.
I always loved in some subway system in Asia regular PSA "There were pickpocketers detected in subway system", really helpful... Dunno whether it was India or HK or somewhere.
"The CNIL found that Google and Facebook's failures to make non-essential cookies as easy to reject as to accept invalidated the consent on which the businesses relied. Whereas cookies could be accepted by a single 'click', a number of steps were needed to reject them."
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"The CNIL stressed that consent must be freely given which implies that it must be as easy for a user to accept non-essential cookies as to reject them."
https://www.lexology.com/library/detail.aspx?g=6001cd19-ecbf...
The gears are turning slowly but they are turning.
If an annoying cookie pop-up does not close (with an opt out) in 2 clicks, it's illegal; that's part of GDPR because of this malicious compliance. (making people click each option individually).