Re: GDP....Aaarrgggh!
"It has become a nightmare since GDPR came into effect."
Nightmare? You don't mean utopia? There is now a banner to tell you that those websites are not worthy of your time.
"And because my browser is set to delete cookies automatically every time I end a session"
It's year 2000+, website changes too much for cookies to have any meaning to be kept on disk for long term. Every user should be doing that.