Except that many of the "deny consent" buttons I'm told either don't work or are intentionally made to slow you down. Again, not fair on a government site. Also

Except that many of the "deny consent" buttons I'm told either don't work or are intentionally made to slow you down. Again, not fair on a government site. Also, they all work by placing a cookie in your browser. If the whole point is that you don't want to be tracked by tracking cookies, then the solution, of "OK, we'll place this cookie to tell us not to track you using cookies" defeats the point. Once the cookies is on your computer, you can't really tell who's using it for what. They can just say it's not a tracking cookie, but still use it as one. The whole scheme is ludicrous.