Since early January, Spanish websites display this cookie notice.
Should I do the same on my blog? If so, how could I implement it? In the case of those who decide to subscribe, would I earn a percentage?
You don’t earn money from people accepting cookies. Cookies are files on a computer that track information of a website. Not everyone likes them because they tend to track personal information. That’s why websites are required nowadays to let people opt out from using them.
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My intention is not to charge, but as it’s an alternative offered to the visitor, if 99.99% clicks on accepting cookies, there will always be 0.01% that clicks the other option, and it needs to be defined well. I don’t know if it’s managed by a company, if it’s a plugin, etc. And of course, I assume that having the blog in Spain, I’ll have to implement something similar. I suppose that small percentage will pay to some entity, and with that money, something will be done because if the result were the same as accepting cookies, it wouldn’t make sense to have both options.
Cookies have nothing to do with money.
If your site does use cookies, you are obliged to tell your visitors and give them the option to opt out of them.
This is part of the GDPR rules in Europe. This is why a lot of sites have cookie consent pop-up when you first vist them.
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Just a clarification… GDPR applies to the storage of personal information in cookies or other methods. If your blog for example stores the favorite sport the viewer selected from a drop-down, it is not subject to GDPR rules.
Be very careful with your choice of words 
It may not be a violation of GDPR for that single bit. However if you’re also storing information about the user’s IP, and browser, and their favorite sport… now you’re heading towards making it personally identifiable information…
It’s not that you arent subject to GDPR rules, it’s just that you havent yet done enough to warrant needing an authorization from the user.
Normally you even do not know what you website is gathering on informations when you use at least one external framework. If you include something like google analytics, you are lost anyways.
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That would put one in an interesting bind, yes? If the user selects the “don’t store any cookies” option, and your framework requires them, and potentially has already stored them, you have no way to let the user continue without cookies, yes? Do you just put up a nice message and exit() quietly?
Not being a “framework developer” myself, I haven’t run into this scenario.
Some sites require cookies to function. They may have an option for “Use only necessary cookies”, then I guess it’s up to the visitor whether they continue or leave.
In my case, I’m not entirely sure which cookies it uses because it’s not something I handle directly; WordPress, plugins, the sales platform, etc., handle it internally. So, that’s why I wanted to clarify what measures to take to comply with the regulations. Could someone take a look at my website and tell me if it collects information to introduce a message like that?
In the case of this website, for example, if you choose to reject and proceed with payment, it doesn’t allow you to access the website until you fill out the information and make the payment. https://www.20minutos.es/