It's also straight up illegal under gdpr. Rejecting all unnecessary cookies must be as easy as accepting them.

It's also illegal. The "no fuck you" button should be as visible and accessible as the "accept all".

Make it as easy for users to withdraw their consent as it was for them to give their consent in the first place.

Obviously, no one cares. There's no real consequences, cookies are still dropped on your system regardless of consent, and cookies weren't even the real problem to begin with, user profiling had already moved to include other invasive techniques.

As far as making something complex and useless go, it'd have been way easier to work with the w3c to add attributes to cookies to identify their purpose (essential, preferences, etc.) so the browser could filter them out based on that attributes and the matching of the current website. It would have meant way less work on the website owners, provide ways for end-user to set their preferences universally and be done with it, enforced said preferences, and so on. And people that would lie on the purpose of their cookie would still lie, but could be caught red-handed (assuming anyone actually cared).

Instead we got this mess.

When uou accept cookies you authorize them to collect data, just use the extension "I still don't care about cookies"

But also remember to clear cookies and cache when closing the browser, so all the collecting ia useless

Came here to say this so I'll upvote instead. Consent-o-matic is great!