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IIRC the EU also ruled that burying the rejection options under additional links counts as a violation. Hence why Google now has a Reject button next to the accept button. Most sites still do that.
Most sites definitely don't do this
There is also a name for these kind of psychological tricks and pressure. It's called nudging.
I found a small report on this by the EU Commission's science and knowledge service. https://publications.jrc.ec.europa.eu/repository/bitstream/JRC127856/JRC127856_01.pdf
There are surely even better resources.
Yeah this is very common, I don't know why other people on here are gaslighting like it doesn't happen. It's this way for major sites like YouTube/Twitter/Twitch/etc too. Hell even embedding a YouTube video on a site is violating GDPR. It's a good idea, but needs a version 2.0 patch to fix some exploits.