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Technical cookies don't need a cookie banner anyway. Sadly not all website operators know this.


They know this very well, but marketing/legal etc. force them to display it anyway, because they want to annoy you into just clicking "Accept all".


And because the law is written so unaccountable bureaucrats (often in another country) get to decide what is a "technical cookie," so better safe than sorry.


often in another country

Stop spouting nonsense. Enforcement is done by the DPA of the country where the company is located, hence why everyone is annoyed with how Ireland is handling Facebook but can't do anything about it.


My company is located in the United States; which DPA has authority over the way my site handles Europeans' private data?




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