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ELI5: Legitimate-interest cookies
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this post was submitted on 18 Sep 2023
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It seems you are confusing strictly necessary cookies with legitimate interest cookies, which are different things: https://kbin.social/m/explainlikeimfive@lemmy.world/t/466192/-/comment/2427882
I had added the #GDPR tag to the question and, as far as I know, GDPR is the only regulation that requires a cookie consent banner and mentions legitimate interest cookies, but I may be wrong on that as I don't know all the regulations around the world 😃 (and California tends to follow EU's stances on these matters, so I wouldn't be surprised if they were baking something similar to the GDPR if they don't have it yet).
But yeah, you are right, people from many different places around the world could be reading the question, so I must have been clear that this is specific to some local regulation. I edited the post.
Thanks, appreciate it. I definitely misunderstood 'legitimate interest' cookies as 'strictly necessary'. It looks like the laws are vague and still in development. I'm not in the EU but it's been fun diving into this discussion and the laws!