Let's be clear here: The law is NOT to blame for cookie banners.

The blame lies with companies that would rather inconvenience you with a banner than respect your privacy by not collecting (and selling) your data..

https://www.politico.eu/article/europe-cookie-law-messed-up-the-internet-brussels-sets-out-to-fix-it/?

Europe’s cookie law messed up the internet. Brussels wants to fix it.

The European Commission wants to take a bite out of privacy rules that force websites to run cookie banners.

POLITICO
@vmbrasseur I use an "add blocker" that can be set to auto decline all cookies. It also blocks most trackers, on some sites it can be more than 50. The ones that really want to track you use other methods that are almost impossible to block, no cookies involved.
The blocker I use is Ghostery, I'm sure the other popular ones work just as well.
I do see the occasional cookie banner when I visit non english sites but I almost forgot they exist.