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I can imagine how you can believe that privacy is not a significant or real concern, what I can't imagine is how you think your annoyance with cookie permission popups is somehow more significant.

It's more significant to me. In-your-face consent pop-ups are a multiple times daily annoyance. Targeted ads while creepy don't interrupt your task. After all you will be seeing an ad anyway, whether it is targeted or not hardly makes a difference.

This "cure" is worse than the problem it tries to solve.

This is exactly the reason the law exists: that people can't actually be expected to understand the consquences. I sure don't - so I'm glad someone else looks after my interests.

Most of Europeans do. You might not care in the moment but you will care if you know how these profiles are used, sold and resold, ...

Sold to whom and used for what?

If the answer is "to target advertising" then what is the danger?

If the answer is something else, I'm all ears...