Disable Subscription Management for Comments as a User

Note: This post is as a user of WordPress i.e. a reader of blogs.

Every time I enter my email on a WP blog somewhere on the internet, I get an email from wordpress asking me to confirm if I want to follow.

I want to disable this and go back to the pre-GDPR days where I can just click submit and it will automatically submit the form and I get notifications for new comments/replies.

I also find that all the comments are linked to my WP account when I use the email. I do not ever remember consenting to this. I do not want all my comments linked to a centralised WP server.

What can I do to remove this?