Instead of saying "when will this madness end?", take a close look at the consent dialogue and the companies and how much of them are listed in there. Also, switch off all options and go to "legitimate interest" and take a look what's in there again.
The advertising industry is making the Internet broken. I understand, the money is needed for Internet and a lot of services wouldn't be there without advertising. But, sorry, not that way!
May be it's a European thing, but I really care about my data and I really strong opposed to companies making profiles of me everywhere I go and selling them then.. and, Europe made that privacy and data protection laws, because the majority is thinking like me. UK is former European, but they too passed the law.
So, it will stop when you move out of a country, where general data protection is important.
The same familiar sites won't ask you for consent then, but just take your data and sell it. ... Ever wanted to know why your insurance is more expensive than some others? Ask your data dealer...
Or, it will stop when new laws are passed that generally forbid to use data.
Thanks for understanding and accepting other people's thoughts and ways of live :)
The US should pass a similar law and punish promiscuous data sharing forever. It should be difficult to access websites that auction your data for behavioral advertising.