Not sure why you're being downvoted, yeah cookies are handled by legislation other than GDPR (ePrivacy as you mentioned). However regardless of whether you're

Not sure why you're being downvoted, yeah cookies are handled by legislation other than GDPR (ePrivacy as you mentioned). However regardless of whether you're using cookies, I still think you need to collect explicit consent as GDPR requires a lawful basis of processing, and I don't see how analytics would fall under any of the other lawful basis's other than consent (_maybe_ legitimate interests?) If you are using cookies, then my understanding is you need to collect consent where necessary under _both_ ePrivacy and GDPR.