Conversely, this site actually does have an EU compliant cookies banners with a single "refuse consent" button that's prominent as the "take all my data" button

Conversely, this site actually does have an EU compliant cookies banners with a single "refuse consent" button that's prominent as the "take all my data" button. In fact, the refuse button is perhaps more prominent then the accept button. It's perhaps slightly annoying as it come up with a delay that kicks in after a scroll, but on the scale of usual purposefully-misleading cookie consent (mis-)handling via dark patterns, it's not bad at all.