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A big green "AGREE ALL" button is explicitly non-compliant, though.

In theory one could preemptively block all consent popups and requests and continue to surf the website without being tracked, if the GDPR had any teeth.

For what it's worth here's what I do:

I run my own /etc/hosts file based on : https://github.com/StevenBlack/hosts

This should block the popular ad-ware companies.

I also browse with Brave, and use their inbuilt "shields" feature to block 3rd party/cross-site cookies. I don't install any additional browser plugins.

Would be nice to kill all the consent-popups, as you say.

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