I agree with removing the cookie requests. 99% of people just click the big green "AGREE ALL" button because they're too busy to go on a box-ticking exercise. I hope other aspects of GDPR remain in place though, and have to agree that we should be cherry picking the rules that make sense to UK businesses and users.

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.

CodeGlitch

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.