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		iamacyborg on July 9, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Plausible Analytics: GDPR Compliance w/o Cookie Co... Yep. The legislation has nothing to do with cookies, it’s about storage of unique identifiers. The actual method of storage is largely irrelevant.

swores on July 9, 2024 [–]

For GDPR yes, but there is also a separate and older EU regulation that is specifically about cookies (among other things).

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/EPrivacy_Directive

iamacyborg on July 9, 2024 | [–]

Yep, I mentioned PECR in another comment here

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