[Smar]

You still need to ask permission for storing identification data, regardless whether user's browser is told to save cookies or not.

[iamacyborg]

Yep. The legislation has nothing to do with cookies, it’s about storage of unique identifiers. The actual method of storage is largely irrelevant.

[swores]

For GDPR yes, but there is also a separate and older EU regulation that is specifically about cookies (among other things).

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/EPrivacy_Directive

[iamacyborg]

Yep, I mentioned PECR in another comment here