You miss the point. The point is: It Is Not About Cookies. The website owner can track you in a couple dozen ways, and all of them require your consent to be

You miss the point. The point is: It Is Not About Cookies. The website owner can track you in a couple dozen ways, and all of them require your consent to be lawful. What you are saying is that websites would need to "register" transparent pixels as tehcnically necessary or not, Javascript fingerprinting as technically necessary or not, URL query strings/fragments as technically necessary or not, etc, and then the web browser would need to detect those "registrations" and enable/disable those technical uses one by one. Cookie banners are malicious compliance almost all the time, but really, the web browser can't do anything about it.