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Those modals are themselves a dark pattern.
The law they respond to was one that was intended to simply get website to stop using tracking cookies. Just don't do it unless absolutely necessary. It's just uncalled for bad practice.
But it is so vanishingly rare for ANY company/site to be well-behaved that now, the modals are ubiquitous. So common that people desensitize to them. It's just Ferengi trying to scam you every way you look.
I bet most of them don't even work.