Comment by Latty

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It's easier and safer to just claim that you must prompt for everything, and it serves the goal of obfuscating bad behaviour.

Cookies that are functionally necessary to do what the user is there for, not to track them, are OK, that's the spirit and intent of the law. Even if you think the wording means that, realistically, the EU isn't coming after anyone for a legitimate good-faith use of language cookies without a banner, and they'd clarify if that was how they intended to enforce it.