Consent needs to be explicit or there's no consent. Otherwise, we'd be back in the days of putting a message on the site telling "by using our website you accept our ToS and need to give use your firstborn child".
I live in the USA, the country of caveat emptor and 'who cares about citizens, anyway?'.
If I was a European citizen, then I believe by default I did not allow anything. They would be in abeyance of the GDPR if they were to track or identify me.
If I can jam up even a bit of tracking with a PiHole, ublock origin, privacy badger, Bypass Paywalls Clean, Containers, and more, good on me. Im already inexorably tied to google at the moment, and working to remove myself from their ties.
