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You could use localstorage and a script for setting/getting the info via xmlhttp. Technically not a cookie and there is nothing automatically send.

I think cookies are great if they weren't abused as much.

(not saying the site is using any alternative approaches, I think their ambition is laudable)

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I believe localStorage is equivalent to cookies as far as the European cookie banner directive is concerned.

The eDirective states that the browser and device information (like the URL) is private data and you need a permission to access it for non-essential purposes such as analytics. This is why Simple Analytics also needs a cookie banner, contrast to what their marketing says.

I'm not quite up to date, was it passed since 2018? I remember it being delayed quite a bit.

My Google-Fu has proved insufficient.

EU is still working on a new version of the directive. I heard they have been doing it for three years now.

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