The legislation wasn't intended to have popups about all cookies everywhere. It was intended to stop web developers relying on 3rd parties setting arbitrary coo

The legislation wasn't intended to have popups about all cookies everywhere. It was intended to stop web developers relying on 3rd parties setting arbitrary cookies to pierce the user's privacy across the entire web. (And it doesn't apply to first-party cookies). Unfortunately, the tech industry as a whole decided instead of finding a way to work in a more privacy conscious way it was far easier just to exhaust users so that they didn't have to change anything.