It isn't the law that is broken, but rather the enforcement. All the concerns you raise here are covered by the law. It's illegal for it to take longer to reje

It isn't the law that is broken, but rather the enforcement. All the concerns you raise here are covered by the law. It's illegal for it to take longer to reject tracking than to allow it, which should ban all these web site that try to get you to scroll through several hundred options turning them all off. "Legitimate interest" means that the whatever data they want to process is a necessary step in order to do what the user has asked for - for instance, the web site has to be able to set a login token cookie when you log in, and that's allowed because you literally just asked to log in, and that's the only way the web site can do what you asked. All these web site are illegally making the cookie experience dire. They are doing it so that they can: 1. Collect data from people who get fed up and click accept, people who accidentally click accept, etc. 2. Annoy everyone and make people think that the laws are broken, which increases the chances that the laws will be changed in the future. Enforcement would help with this, but there's little sign of it happening.