Also, you initially asserted that the regulations were strict for any and all cookie usage. The person replying to you provided plenty of evidence to the contrary, and now you’re bringing up incredibly niche edge cases, to what end I’m not sure. I think it would be more productive to just concede that the regulations aren’t as strict as you stated.
Most companies will not be compliant unless they do one of (a) get consent from users or (b) hire a lawyer to review each of the things they do in the context of ePrivacy, and make corresponding changes to keep everything within the bounds of "strictly necessary". I'm bringing up these 'edge cases' as part of showing that most sites would have changes they would need to make if they wanted to stop asking for consent from users, and that these changes are not obvious and go beyond removing tracking.
