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It depends. If everything stored & tracked is genuinely necessary (as defined by the regulations) then consent is not required. If they are just telling you that they are storing & tracking necessary things like session information, then all is good (unless the things they store & track are not, in fact, strictly necessary and non-privacy-affecting).

Of course if they don't need consent, then why are they making a song & dance about it having us click an accept button?



They explicitly say a use is for ads on and off this site.




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