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They will give you two choices: pay, or consent. The decision just tells them that now, over 5 years after GDPR went into force, they have to stop breaking the law by not even asking for consent and claiming "legitimate interest" or "we need this to fulfill a contract with the user".

Even if they get fined the 4% of annual revenue, that'll be a tiny bit of the extra money they illegally made over those 5 years. And now they'll do the pay-or-consent (which may or may not be legal), and if it's illegal, they'll happily argue for another 1-2 years then pay the fine...