Such basic functionality as cookies shouldn't need explicit consent. The consent is you navigated to the webpage, if you don't like it you can use a browser that doesn't set cookies.
Tracking is not configurable client-side. Blocking cookies is not sufficient to prevent tracking. Is it the EU that doesn't understand technology or you?
How do I even know that you want to try and farm my personal data until I go there?
Perhaps you should put a click through gateway that states that "proceeding on to this website will sell your personal information to spammy, scummy advertising".
You can configure your web browser to only send first-party cookies back and never set others. Or configure a subset of domains.
If you're worried about it you should be doing that anyway, since the cookies could be set despite the pop-up (or some websites might ignore the consent pop-up requirement entirely).
