I’m slightly privacy-obsessed and my browser is configurated to always throw away all cookies every time I close the session. For me (and presumably for those who wrote the EU regulation), seeing lots of annoying banners is way more acceptable than having my navigation data stored away by unknown actors without my consent.
The spirit of the norm is quite clear: you can use a cookie without consent if the service would not function at all without that cookie. This basically means that session cookies for recognizing logged users are okay, and everything else is probably not. No matter what the SEO guy says, a tracker cookie for site analytics is not strictly necessary for the service to be provided. I hold the view that single-page sites without authentication features should not require cookies at all (I’ve personally designed sites without cookies for small conferences, it’s not a mortal sin to use pure HTML).
I’m slightly privacy-obsessed and my browser is configurated to always throw away all cookies every time I close the session. For me (and presumably for those who wrote the EU regulation), seeing lots of annoying banners is way more acceptable than having my navigation data stored away by unknown actors without my consent.
The spirit of the norm is quite clear: you can use a cookie without consent if the service would not function at all without that cookie. This basically means that session cookies for recognizing logged users are okay, and everything else is probably not. No matter what the SEO guy says, a tracker cookie for site analytics is not strictly necessary for the service to be provided. I hold the view that single-page sites without authentication features should not require cookies at all (I’ve personally designed sites without cookies for small conferences, it’s not a mortal sin to use pure HTML).