[sausagefeet]

The value of this, and more so GDPR, however annoying one may find it, is that it gives the consumer rights that they can use to punish a bad actor. The dialogue is not really the point, it's what you can do with the rights that the dialogue gives you.

Additionally, websites could also implement the cookie (and GDPR) dialogues in a way that wasn't painful. The law doesn't say that you have to implement the dialogue in the slowest most CPU intensive way possible.

[andrewbaron]

Any suggestion for a more elegant solution? For example, with copyrights, it’s in many ways granted automatically just by existence. Other terms and privacy rights don’t require popups.

[sausagefeet]

I don't have anything specific. I think most websites have a slow-and-painful cookie/GDPR dialogue because they must have it so there is no real reason to make it good, they can just blame the law for why it sucks. But, for example, many many websites I visit load up, and then a few seconds later (massive JS download? Some cute animation? I don't know) a dialogue pops up asking for my consent. They could optimize to make this experience better, there is nothing about the web tech stack that requires this sort of thing to be unpleasant.