This is correct; the cookie banners are an attempt to annoy the EU into abandoning GDPR. Ain't gonna work - we like GDPR. Just use a cookie-blocker (e.g. the o

This is correct; the cookie banners are an attempt to annoy the EU into abandoning GDPR. Ain't gonna work - we like GDPR. Just use a cookie-blocker (e.g. the one built into your browser), along with some kind of popup-dismisser (e.g. Super Agent, https://www.super-agent.com/ https://www.super-agent.com/). If your browser is configured to block cookies (third-party, or whatever kind you don't want), then it doesn't matter if the popup-dismisser auto-clicks "Accept". The thing that annoys me more is those US local news-services that outright block access from IPs that they think are within the EU. They aren't pitching their content at a EU audience, so they don't care. But if they're already checking where the visitor's IP is, couldn't they just decline to serve cookies? I think they're just ignorant about GDPR. It's not hard to grok GDPR and comply with it, unless you have a business built around collecting PII. [Edit] Incidentally, I'm not in the EU, since Brexit. That was two years ago - but I'm still blocked from e.g. LA Times.