> Normal cookies required for the functioning of the website
If I happen to click a link on a news aggregator website like this one, then why would the website I visit (possibly for the first time) require my browser to accept cookies?
A technical answer might be that they want to implement a policy to grant you free access to one article per week, and than demand payment to access more than that, and a cookie is simple way to do that (yes, easy to circumvent, but that’s pretty uninteresting from a legal sense)
I don’t think GDPR demands “consent” for this though.
If I happen to click a link on a news aggregator website like this one, then why would the website I visit (possibly for the first time) require my browser to accept cookies?