So, in a theoretical world that doesn't exist, where every website does extra engineering to defer a disclosure until later, it's less of a burden. (But still a

So, in a theoretical world that doesn't exist, where every website does extra engineering to defer a disclosure until later, it's less of a burden. (But still a burden at that later point.) Can you point out a few prominent sites using your preferred approach, so I'm sure what you mean? In our actual world, the disclosure/opt-in requirement is a major burden, because essentially all of the practicioner/implementers, and the specialist firms now powering disclosure popups, have decided their best way to comply is the first-load pop-up mess we've got now. (That's likely because: there's immense value in being able to track sessions-of-use, for adjusting design, even before any commerce or specific-identity info is disclosed. And that value flows not just to the websites: it helps adjust content/UI for the users, as well.) Given the actual, observed state-of-the-world, for years now, it would make more sense for the singlular governing entity that created the problem – the EU – to fix this, rather than the millions of diverse websites worldwide. At the very least, the EU could waive the opt-in requirements for any browser which offers some baseline of user-controlled cookie-blocking – which the ~half-dozen relevant browser engines could easily add. That'd be a far more rational, low total compliance cost, high user-agency solution. Competition & user self-help had practically wiped annoying modal popups from the web. Then the EU's clumsy, oblivious regulators brought them back.