Do you really care this much about some bits in a computer that might try to sell you laundry detergent? I always hit Accept All because I find GDPR unconscionable and want to support the sites I use for free.
And now it’s illegal to not have a popup. Every site is legally obligated to hit every user with one of the all-time most hated UX experiences ever.
It absolutely isn't. You, along with many others, are falling for the advertising industries attempts to turn you against privacy regulations by claiming the regulations force them to inconvenience you.
In fact a great many of the pop-us (the vast majority) are actually in breach, deliberately so, because they make it far more work to opt out than to opt in.
If all you track by default is tokens required for correct functioning of the site (session tokens and such) then you do not need a pop-up at all.
IIRC all that is stipulated in the EU regs, for instance, WRT cookies and other tracking tech is the ability to opt-out should be as easy as the ability to opt in, it should not be auto-opt-in, you can opt-out later if you do opt-in, and you should be properly informed about what you are opting into.
The bad UX patterns making it time-consuming, confusing, or otherwise unpleasant, to opt-out are actually against the spirit of the law (perhaps even the letter of the law) but unfortunately it is not proving really practical to enforce.
The multitude of information stored about us is used for far more than just selling too, as per reports like https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35028107 so I also object on principal as well as for selfish comfort reasons. I have nothing to hide in that regard now, so nothing to fear, but I know people who would do if similar law covered where we live, and people who did have things to hide that this sort of thing would have been a danger to when other crappy laws were in force (people who were homosexual when it was still effectively illegal to be for instance), and who is to say some other law might pop up later which means I might want to hide something I now can't because every advertiser on the planet knows it and can be very easily made to reveal it?
> because I find GDPR unconscionable
From this I surmise that you do not understand GDPR and related legislation, and have fallen for the advertising industries attempts to turn you against such regulations by making you believe they are forced by them to inconvenience you.
I'm familiar with it. I fundamentally disagree with its assumptions on rights.
If you send me a letter, you shouldn't be able to compel me to shred it. If you come into my shop with a clear exoectation of security surveillance, the video should be mine entirely.
If you send my server your IP, that's my information now, and you shouldn't be able to compel me to delete it. But somehow this backwards concept of ownership has gotten popular where every individual is the perpetual tyrant of any information they leave in the world as they go through it. They can tell me to forget something they told me and now various governments will try to punish me if I don't agree to the façade. 1984 comparisons might be a cliché but this fits the memory hole analogy all too well.