UK government department guilty
"although some of the sites have a banner informing users that cookies will be placed on their computer, none of them waited for consent before doing so."
That is indeed illegal. So is this website:
https://ico.org.uk/
That's the website of the government department in charge of enforcing the cookie law in the UK.
And they break it themselves.
You couldn't make it up....
Biting the hand that feeds IT
