Cookie banners predate the GDPR, and were initially a response to the ePrivacy Directive of 2002: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EPrivacy_Directive https://en.wi

Cookie banners predate the GDPR, and were initially a response to the ePrivacy Directive of 2002: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EPrivacy_Directive https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EPrivacy_Directive While the GDPR has added additional restrictions, the basic framework is still in force: you can't store information client-side (cookies, localStorage etc) unless (a) it is "strictly necessary" to fulfill a user request or (b) you get user consent. All the cookies above look to me like they don't meet that bar; the site seems to still fulfill my requests with cookies disabled. (Not a lawyer.)