Improvise, adapt and overcome, OP.
WordPress, like any other tool, is only as bad as the person using it.
Look at it as an opportunity to learn a new skill.
Lol I'm a web developer who has put hundreds of those banners on clients' sites. Not as part of some nefarious data-selling scheme, but rather as a shallow tickbox exercise in order to comply with laws about technology they don't understand.
In this case, assuming ignorance over malice is the way to go.
They do?