GDPR Consent Compliance

Not allowed. Under GDPR, consent for tracking must be freely given and not a condition of service.

The gdpr doesn't prevent such thing. It just requires consent, care and empowerment.

That's called the GDPR. Positive, coercion free, explicit and non-tied consent is a hard requirement. See article 7: https://gdpr-info.eu/art-7-gdpr/

Wasn't the point (or at least one of them) of the GDPR that the consent was to be opt-in?

Same here. Isn't this against GDPR regulations? I thought that sites must give you the option to not provide consent and still visit the site.

Is there a way to pass the GDPR consent dialogue without giving them permission to do whatever they like with my data? I thought the purpose of the GDPR was to give users a choice as to whether their data is used?

GDPR does not allow forcing you to get a consent by preventing you from using the service:"Consent is presumed not to be freely given if it does not allow separate consent to be given to different personal data processing operations despite it being appropriate in the individual case, or if the performance of a contract, including the provision of a service, is dependent on the consent despite such consent not being necessary for such performance."Since GDPR clearly does not cons

That fails the explicit consent test for GDPR for what I understand. You can always opt out at any time to.

Explicit user consent is not the only way to get GDPR compliant

That would not respect the GDPR law. The point is to require consent. And as an user you should be annoyed and seek websites that respect you better.> Consent should be given by a clear affirmative act establishing a freely given, specific, informed and unambiguous indication of the data subject's agreement to the processing of personal data relating to him or her, such as by a written statement, including by electronic means, or an oral statement. This could include ticking a box whe