I just don't understand this. Why make it so big? I know it's perfectly legal to make it small and unannoying.
Likely because when it was small, not enough users clicked 'I accept" to allow tracking such that their advertisers balked and wanted to pay much less per eyeball.
So the response was "force the user to click "I accept" before they see the content, then the tracking cookies can be set and we can get a larger ad revenue share".
> I obviously know I can get rid of it by pressin "I accept"
I generally do one of two things:
1) delete the overlay with dev tools
2) leave the page
Which one I do depends upon how interested I might be in reading the content. But I never, ever, click the "I accept" link.
This behaviour is against the GDPR, not only does consent should be explicitly given (so don't pre-tick the checkboxes or favour the accept button over the refuse one) but also should be given freely so it should not be more inconvenient to refuse than to accept, and finally, no tracking until consent has been given - this includes "strictly necessary" stuff (no it isn't strictly necessary) like Google Analytics.