Or maybe it's just that someone needs to be fined for showing a useless GDPR Popup even though DNT was sent already. But I suspect with the recent W3C downgrade it's no industry standard so nobody can be forced to acknowledge it.
The EU got it wrong with the popup aspect of cookies/GDPR legislation. It's just bad UX.
A DNT-style browser feature with legal weight behind it would have been miles better. Your browser could present a consistent interface for every website that requests consent, and allow you to set global defaults, etc.
Safari already has this type of thing for a lot of other related features that require (or make sense to provide) user consent - but not cookies.
Maybe it's a harder issue to solve with a UI (third party cookies, subdomain cookies etc.) Maybe they just haven't gotten around to it (I used to set the global "site im visiting" cookie pref but since they added the "intelligent" cross site tracking protection that option seems to be gone..
The popup about cookies was the UK, wasn't it? Unless GDPR also happened a cookies thing afterwards, but the mandatory cookie popup was an out-of-touch plague on the internet for quite a while before GDPR was a thing.
The mandatory cookie popup was only necessary when websites created cookies not necessary for the proper function of the site. Of course, every website ended up using them for tracking, so people ended up having to click through cookie notices everywhere.
The GDPR popup of techchruch (source of the article) is so infuriation I refuse to visit the site. I've spend 5 minutes on it, and couldn't find a way to opt-out of tracking.
They are even doubly so irritating when you don't use cookies. Have to click through the rejections each and every time. Quite quickly a browsing pattern forms to avoid certain sites.
