This may be an unpopular view here but the GDPR has made the web experience infinitely worse. I'd like to see some stats on how many folks abandon without consenting. I'd guess the number is small, yet the majority of folks have to suffer these stupid consent popups.

I'd as soon just not serve content to EU residents than have to make everyone suffer through the nonsense. That won't fly for big companies of course.

Alternatively maybe make those popups only show for EU (geolocated) users.