Legislation by the EU is why the popups are there. It really is that simple.
Or, to be fair to all parties, they are there because continuous abuse by the industry forced governmental action.
Don’t invade user’s privacy and you don’t need cookie banners. Can’t get simpler than that.
https://commission.europa.eu/resources-partners/europa-web-g...
> Use of the cookie consent kit is mandatory on each page of the DGs and executive agencies-owned websites, regardless of the cookies used.
Let’s please engage in good-faith conversation. If you don’t read a prominent explanatory banner with a blocky information icon at the top of an explanatory page, I don’t know what to tell you.
> Don’t invade user’s privacy and you don’t need cookie banners.
But when it's pointed out all EU websites use cookie banners, you shift goalposts and pretend that others are engaging in bad faith.
Because you keep failing to read properly (and even had one comment flagged on the same subject), I’ll emphasise it this time:
> Use of the cookie consent kit is mandatory on each page of the DGs and executive agencies-owned websites, regardless of the cookies used.
Again:
> regardless of the cookies used
In case you still don’t understand, that means it doesn’t matter what type of cookies the EU websites use, they still have to show the banner even for cookies no one else has to show a banner for.