Meanwhile the headlining article is "NO ONE’S READY FOR GDPR". The irony is palpable.

I use 'Kill Sticky' to get around these popovers. Usually it works. Sometimes scrolling is broken. But it's usually better than clicking 'ok'. https://alisdair.mcdiarmid.org/kill-sticky-headers/

and you get a geo-localizing cookie installed even before clicking 'accept' - and that's with mublock already filtering out 7 requests

On the bright side, it made me find out that ublock's block element feature is really easy to use. Even works on mobile!