The grand majority of them aren't really complying with the law as they default to cookies on and use a series of dark patterns to avoid you turning them off. But so far the regulators haven't been dealing with the problem. But its well within their power to do so and fix it so there is a simple dismiss button and the default is no cookies if they start enforcing the law they have.
Ironically The Guardian itself is violating the GDPR, doing precisely what you described. And this harms the reputation of the law as it gets associated with annoying and ineffective pop-ups.
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The grand majority of them aren't really complying with the law as they default to cookies on and use a series of dark patterns to avoid you turning them off. But so far the regulators haven't been dealing with the problem. But its well within their power to do so and fix it so there is a simple dismiss button and the default is no cookies if they start enforcing the law they have.
Ironically The Guardian itself is violating the GDPR, doing precisely what you described. And this harms the reputation of the law as it gets associated with annoying and ineffective pop-ups.