Again, the new law does not specifically mention "analytics" - the analytics issue is something that you yourself have come up with. If you read the guidelines,

Again, the new law does not specifically mention "analytics" - the analytics issue is something that you yourself have come up with. If you read the guidelines, you'll notice that it states that consent does not need to be sought "where such storage or access is strictly necessary for the provision of [a service]". As I mentioned above, the provision of a service may have a usability component, for which cookies are necessary; however the service may work with degraded usability without such cookies. Would a degradation in usability make the cookies "strictly necessary", and if so, to what extent? This is something the new law does not address, and causes worry for web developers like me.