[account42]

Specifically, GDPR requires consent before you do (some) things the user might not want. You could simply not try to do those things and then you won't need to obtain consent at all.

It's absurd how used we have become to wantonly collecting user data that some people can't even imagine not doing that.

[gcbirzan]

Yeah. Or, you could make the opt-in something the user has to choose himself, like a link on the page.