It is not an EU law. Nowhere in GDPR are cookie banners mandated.
replyActually big tech is to blame: https://killthecookiebanner.eu/
The cookie disaster is thanks to the ePrivacy Directive, which came before GDPR:
reply- https://www.edps.europa.eu/data-protection/our-work/subjects...
we could have settled on privacy compliant tracking without cookies, which is possible or use browser preferences and respect those (which would be perfectly legal)
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