No, the essential cookies were never subject to such limitations. Even today you don’t need a banner for them. Digital stalking under the disguise of essential

No, the essential cookies were never subject to such limitations. Even today you don’t need a banner for them. Digital stalking under the disguise of essential functions or calling it just tracking doesn’t do any good. Some websites even purposely break their functionality when 3rd party cookies are disabled. So, no, do-not-track is an order, do not stalk me, period.