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The EU law already allowed technically necessary cookies without any banner.

Every time you get a cookie banner with options, the website wants to know more about you than the law permits by default.

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... or cargo culted a site that did. I think this is far more common. It's almost like you're not a serious web site if you don't have a cookie popup of some kind.

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