> choose this obnoxious practice so they could continue with what they've been doing for years, which is monitoring every action a visitor does. You're right,

> choose this obnoxious practice so they could continue with what they've been doing for years, which is monitoring every action a visitor does. You're right, but I'd like to mention that, in pretty much every jurisdiction with laws like this, you cannot set or retrieve information from a user's computer without getting their consent first. Which means that accessing cookies on page load, then showing a consent banner, is no more protection then just not having a consent banner. I would always tell clients this, and even send them the relevant wording, but I don't believe it ever made the tiniest bit of difference because, as you say, they just want to keep tracking users.