No. The cookie banners have nothing to do with cookies per se, they are a consent / information popup required if companies want to store and use personal data

No. The cookie banners have nothing to do with cookies per se, they are a consent / information popup required if companies want to store and use personal data beyond what's required to serve you with the website content (GDPR) or they want to store non-essential identifiers on your device (ePrivacy directive). In other words, you are seeing these because marketing departments need BS metrics that measure nothing and are based on some personal data. The internet can happily exist without them as proven by Github[1]. [1] https://github.blog/2020-12-17-no-cookie-for-you/ https://github.blog/2020-12-17-no-cookie-for-you/