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by nickpp 1837 days ago
Then why does the very gdpr.eu website have a cookie banner at the bottom of the page?! There is clearly no session or shopping cart going on.
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Uh, are you asking why a site with that doesn't use cookies in a purely functional manner has a cookie banner?

In any case, it's the usual reason: they have google tracking, and it seems like they embed content from other sides the easy way. You too can learn the answer to the mystery of why there is a consent banner by clicking the "Privacy policy" button, this one actually explains it clearly, like it was supposed to be a model example or something.

Actually the unobtrusive cookie banner as implemented on that site is illegal under GDPR. Check out https://ico.org.uk/ for a correctly implemented popup with its dismal UX.