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No, you don't have to put up a cookie banner if the cookies are essential to your website. For example, to handle logins or purchases. If you include non-essen
by dmitriid 6y ago
No, you don't have to put up a cookie banner if the cookies are essential to your website. For example, to handle logins or purchases.
If you include non-essential cookies (like, for example, tracking cookies set by two or three hundred advertisers), you must ask the user for their consent. The site must have "decline all" as the default option, and should continue to provide basic functionality when the user declines.
All the banners that don't have the opt-out option or making it difficult to opt-out willfully break the law.
And yes, GDPR is a good law.
- donor20 6y agoYou run a free website that survives based on advertising. This is essential for the website to continue to be viable. Are cookies essential then? You run a shopping cart. As part of your fraud detection you put a fraud cookie beacon on every page. Is the fraud beacon essential? As part of your product development / ab testing etc you track users on your website. Is this essential? For affiliate link fraud control third parties want to have a cookie on your site that leads through to their clickthrough link. Essential? Reality - you need to stick up a cookie banner to operate a website or get into long complicated legal arguments and face big liability. And that's what folks do, including practically every government agency.