There absolutely is a cookie law. The UK legislation is "PECR" [1] which sits alongside the GDPR.

> PECR are the Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations. Their full title is The Privacy and Electronic Communications (EC Directive) Regulations 2003.

> They are derived from European law. They implement European Directive 2002/58/EC, also known as ‘the e-privacy Directive’.

> PECR cover several areas:

> The use of cookies or similar technologies that track information about people accessing a website or other electronic service.

See "How does this fit with the GDPR?" for how the two relate, tl;dr:

> The GDPR does not replace PECR, although it changes the underlying definition of consent. Existing PECR rules continue to apply, but using the new GDPR standard of consent.

[1] https://ico.org.uk/for-organisations/guide-to-pecr/what-are-...

This is correct in GDPR. This is why you can’t use something like LocalStorage, ETags or something else as a loophole.

No, you can't, because the law concerns itself with data storage and processing, not whether you are using a cookie.

Ah that was a brain fart moment, sorry. I meant to say you cannot use, GDPR is something I handle daily. Thanks for correcting, I amended the answer.

Parent edited their comment from "can" to "can't", and I got downvoted, yikes.