Also most of the dialogs have been lying from the start, implying that they need permission for the cookies "required to run the site", which are in fact sessio

Also most of the dialogs have been lying from the start, implying that they need permission for the cookies "required to run the site", which are in fact session cookies, which do not require the dialog. It seems they've become stricter about what the dialogs should say (probably the GDPR? which is predated by the cookie dialog law), but in the beginning there was a lot of misinformation (not always deliberate, some frontend devs were also just misinformed). And this, at least in part, caused the wrong reaction from the public: That the cookie dialogs are stupid and annoying, instead of informing them that certain sites would really like to use cookies for purposes of 3rd party advertising and tracking networks. Maybe if there had been more websites proudly displaying a (non annoying) banner "our site's cookies are fine; they do not require a cookie dialog!". I don't know.