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by remram 1113 days ago
Indeed that is very awkward: "European Union (“EU”) legislation requires all website operators to inform website visitors about their usage of cookies"

Later: "first-party and third-party cookies are used on: 1password.com (...)

Stating that you need consent and not asking for it is extremely weird.

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AFAIK, certain classes of cookies do not require consent. For example, login cookies.
The legislation requires you to ask consent for non-essential (ie. tracking) cookies. So unless they put a tracking cookie on their site the behaviour is correct, and that text is simply incorrect.
That's my bad for not quoting further, the very next paragraph is:

> First-party cookies are set by 1Password. They help calculate things like page views and visitors to the website. Third-party cookies are set by 1Password affiliates for commission and advertising purposes.

https://1password.com/legal/cookies/

They make it clear that they know consent is required, that they absolutely fall into that category, and then don't ask.

They do use nonessential cookies - Google Analytics, affiliate tracking cookies and more: https://1password.com/legal/cookies/#cookies-we-use-on-our-w...