Re: That was nice
The ruling is quite clear: consent must be explicitly given so such messages are invalid. This shouldn't really surprise any once as it has consistently been the position of the courts.
However, GDPR is currently being revised and it wouldn't surprise me if some cookies become legitimate without consent as long as there is a list of them with their purpose and lifespan. It's not as if this hard to do, though I've seen multiple, ahem, "developers" fail to provide a correct list and explantion of a website's cookies. Note, that failure to do this correctly could go beyond GDPR and enter the realms of fraud.
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