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by akvadrako 2424 days ago
There was before gpdr. I think it’s obsolete now.
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No, storing cookies needed to make your site work was always needed.

Sending tracking information to third parties required a notice of some kind, no matter if it was in the form of cookies or some other mechanism.

So, no there was never a EU cookie law, it was just a major FUD operation and a lot of people put up completely unneccessary cookie consent popups without understanding why.