This latest trend is so annoying: there is either "Accept" or: "See purpose". And the "Don't accept" stuff is hidden under "See purpose". Infuriating.

The tracking banners frenzy gdpr started is unbearable. It has decreased the usability of the web significantly.

Everyone is obsessed with improving page loading time but what does worth that the page loads instantly if I have to navigate a maze of banner consent screens before I can see the content behind it

Why can't everyone at least agree on the same banner format / ui or have it delegated to the browser behind some native browser functionality like autocomplete

The reason is that if it's done in the browser then a person's preferences will apply to every website they use with that browser. Publishers will not want that as they hope that users will give them more consent than other web sites (I certainly do give some websites full permissions if I like them, others are a 'reject all' and 'object all')

Also, your consent preferences are stored under that website's cookie. There is the option of a global cookie but nobody uses it. This cookie data is then sent to everyone involved in the adtech chain (which is causing issues since it can be multiple KB's in size). It's format is described in [0]

[0] https://github.com/InteractiveAdvertisingBureau/GDPR-Transpa...