What should happen is irrelevant to the conversation. We’re talking about what WOULD happen.

That assumption of inevitability is self-fulfilling. Things would be a lot different if everyone who pessimistically disengages instead tried to use the democratic process.

Should we perhaps try to get the "cookie law" fixed :)

Yes: if the politicians never hear about things like that they're going to assume nobody dislikes it very much.

This is the EU, bad laws do get repealed, for example, the data retention directive was annulled for violating fundamental rights of privacy. It's not completely eradicated from national laws yet in every country but it's on its way.

Can you name one instance where overly authoritarian laws were repealed peacefully?

The German data retention law was quite peacefully dismantled by our supreme court equivalent.