Why do you bombard me with a bullshit consent box while I was just reading the front page of the website? Requesting one single page shouldn't do anything that would need consent.
Cookies, for example, may track identifying information. Thus, websites are compelled under the law to inform you of their practices actively and directly. Even requesting one page.
That's totally wrong, please don't spread falsehoods like this. Consent is merely one of several possible bases for processing.
There is no functional reason for a content-only website to require cookies.
To display you a webpage I need to process your IP address, this doesn't require any consent as it is necessary to operate the webpage at all.
Similarly a cookie that tracks the contents of a shopping bag does not immediately require consent.
If you ask a customer for a physical address during the checkout you don't need consent either.
You need consent if you want to process this data for anything but the immediately necessary purposes, ie analyzing unanonymized IPs or the contents of shopping bags or using shopping bag cookies to track visitors.