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This law was supposed to give me control of my data. If I have control of my data, why can't I use it to pay the owner of the website?

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Click-through "I agree" buttons are almost never a matter of informed consent and almost always a matter of convenience-driven rape.

You can freely share your data under GDPR but the owner of the website can not request data as form of payment for the access to the website.

That doesn’t seem to give me much freedom about my data - in fact it seems like it took freedom away from me.

Yes, we live in a society. You aren't allowed to do anything you want. But you are wrong. You had no option before, now you have. How is that taking away freedom from you?

> it seems like it took freedom away from me

And it *gave* freedom to society not to have their personal data exploited and privacy invaded for corporate profit.

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