That's exactly the line of reasoning that these privacy invading companies want you to follow. The law doesn't mandate obnoxiously huge popups that slow to a cr

That's exactly the line of reasoning that these privacy invading companies want you to follow. The law doesn't mandate obnoxiously huge popups that slow to a crawl when you try to actually use them to disable cookies and whatnot, quite the contrary. It's the companies who are choosing to make the experience as miserable as possible.