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by Jtarii 2 days ago
More likely it was designed by some firm that put the cookie banner there because "that is just what you do in current year"
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One of our sites that don't use any kind of tracking or cookies other then a site preference cookie, got so many complaints that we had to put up a cookie banner that simply says "we do not use any tracking cookies"...
Who complained what?
Users complained that we were non-compliant with EU regulations due to the missing cookie banner.

Because of the legal wording of these support tickets, the support team would often raise them to dev or legal as well, and since this is a non-revenue driving part of our business (the reason we don't track in the first place) we decided to just put up a cookie banner explaining why we don't need a cookie banner.

Yes and my "peanut allergy friendly" cookies say "may contain peanuts" because that's just what you do