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by wat10000 107 days ago
It’s not the legal risk, it’s the desire to track users. How often have you seen a cookie banner that says “we only set cookies when it’s essential to the site’s functionality so there’s nothing for you to opt out of”?
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It's almost every site big and small, so there must be plenty of cases where they don't even want to track users.
And yet I don’t think I’ve ever seen it.