I'm browsing europa.eu a fair while now (in a private browser session to avoid any old cookie from maybe interfering) and the only banner they show is "An offic

I'm browsing europa.eu a fair while now (in a private browser session to avoid any old cookie from maybe interfering) and the only banner they show is "An official website of the European Union - How do you know?" There are two links to the cookie page (https://europa.eu/european-union/abouteuropa/cookies_en https://europa.eu/european-union/abouteuropa/cookies_en or equivalent for the currently used language), one in the top nav bar, one in the bottom. Interestingly, that page talks about the cookie banner and how they need consent for analytics and stuff, but I never saw that. So, given how they explicitly state that they need it for analytics, I went to my browser settings and disabled sending the DNT header - and there was the cookie consent popup. So: State outright and by default that you don't want to be analyzed and they won't bother you. My only question is why they see a need to do analytics. Without that they wouldn't require that stuff _at all_.