For most sites I find not accepting persistent cookies at all and using a blocker to hide the prompts is sufficient. This avoids tracking (at least via cookies)

For most sites I find not accepting persistent cookies at all and using a blocker to hide the prompts is sufficient. This avoids tracking (at least via cookies) whether the site is compliant or not. The nasty ones are the likes of Google's more recent interstitial, which you can't easily hide with a blocker even if you've chosen to disallow cookies through your browser settings anyway, and which also requires several clicks to turn everything off explicitly before continuing, and which then redirects to a link on a domain most ad blockers will intercept causing further hassle for the user to override. I'd have some sympathy for sites being put in a difficult position if visitors have disabled cookies entirely because putting up some sort of prompt on every visit if they need one is probably then required to comply with the letter of the law. But there's really no need for the obnoxious many-clicks-to-clear-it things like Google is doing and I don't believe for a moment that they weren't fully aware of the implications when they made the change.