Seriously, when are website designers going to realise that setting lots of cookies and then asking for consent is the wrong way round? I mean, surely the concept is clear. Unless the cookie is strictly necessary, for example to carry out the function requested by the user, don’t set the darn thing until consent is gained. To me this is like someone plastering advertising stickers all over your car and then finding you and asking if it’s ok, versus someone asking ‘hey can I put these advertising stickers on your car?’
Of course, you can always empty your browser’s cookie cache regularly as I do. But then you run the risk of Google asking you to go through their consent stuff for the umpteenth time because you deleted the cookie they set that remembers your answers. That’s understandable, but still frustrating. Browsers could use a mechanism by where you clear out everything except a few you chose specifically to persist, and have a button on the menu bar to clear them too so you do not need to go diving into the menus.