The real goal of EDD is for websites to have landing page (assuming you navigate from search engine) that requires no cookies, and does not capture identifying/

The real goal of EDD is for websites to have landing page (assuming you navigate from search engine) that requires no cookies, and does not capture identifying/tracking information (so no asking for consent would be needed at all) before showing the article. The consent might be asked when you navigate to next article within the website, but majority of people don't.