Comment by crote
1 day ago
That's why the usual phrasing is some variation of "Are we allowed to track you? We use cookies for that".
It was never about the cookies themselves. That just happened to be the most common form of tracking in use when the GDPR was originally written. Cookie-less tracking still requires a consent prompt, tracking-less cookies never required one.
You’re conflating GDPR and the ePrivacy Directive. They _should_ work how people imagine they do.
> it was never about the cookies themselves.
The ePrivacy directive was about cookies. GDPR is about user consent and data handling - the cookie banner is from the ePrivacy directive.
> Cookie-less tracking still requires a consent prompt, tracking-less cookies never required one.
Where in the GDPR or ePrivacy directive does it say cookie less tracking requires a consent prompt?
And on tracking-less cookies not requiring one - that’s my entire point.