> as a website owner I have a legal requirement to get consent Consent !== cookie-banners. Hey, you don't have a legal requirement to track people at all; it f

> as a website owner I have a legal requirement to get consent Consent !== cookie-banners. Hey, you don't have a legal requirement to track people at all; it follows that there's no legal requirement to get consent to track. Tracking must be opt-in, so just provide a menu option or something, that lets your visitor opt-in to tracking, if they love being tracked (let us know how many people opt-in to tracking, if you haven't gated the entire site on a consent banner). Maybe your site provides features that depend on tracking? No prob - gate those features with a consent dialog. Maybe you don't want any visitors you can't track? Well, that really means that your homepage should be an opt-in dialog, returning a 404 if you opt out.