Consent is not a request where the consumer has to make a decision to accept or deny, in EU consent is an opt-in activity. So there is a clear default state -

Consent is not a request where the consumer has to make a decision to accept or deny, in EU consent is an opt-in activity. So there is a clear default state - doing nothing is the same thing as refusing a request, and refusing to even read any requests is a perfectly legitimate way of doing nothing. There is no legal or moral reason to afford the request any attention or consideration, if you're ignoring it, then you're not opting in, and the site has very clear explicit information that it doesn't have your consent.