> I don’t know, seems to me that most of the sites I see them in are US sites that say they have to get consent because of GDPR. If they're asking about cookie

> I don’t know, seems to me that most of the sites I see them in are US sites that say they have to get consent because of GDPR. If they're asking about cookies for GDPR then that's a mistake on the part of those sites. You can read about the details of PECR here https://ico.org.uk/for-organisations/guide-to-pecr/what-are-pecr/ https://ico.org.uk/for-organisations/guide-to-pecr/what-are-... Of course under GDPR they may need to get permission for other forms of data processing (signing you up to a marketing mailing list, for example), but the rash of cookie permissions banners are because of PECR and similar legislation in other EU countries.