As an EU member most newspaper sites don't ask me to download an app, they just tell me that while I'm very important to them I'm not allowed to see their websi

As an EU member most newspaper sites don't ask me to download an app, they just tell me that while I'm very important to them I'm not allowed to see their website as gdpr means they can't collect absurd amounts of data as I read. I don't think web apps are the privacy haven you think they are.