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Following the German debate the courts and watchdogs interpretation of the law is that strictly necessary means that the functionality is not possible without cookies or other technology and the consent has to be of the same quality as per GDPR.

Privacy law in Germany is usually stricter than in other EU country's even if the text is identical.



Which is exactly what the EU directive intends. You are literally just stating the acceptable exceptions from the EU directive.

And the main argument of this thread initially was that you don't need to ask if you are only using cookies for such use cases.


I assume from your handle that you understand German (?):

This Podcast explains the topic much better than I could:

Rechtsbelehrung - Recht, Technik & Gesellschaft: TTDSG – Cookies unter Aufsicht – Rechtsbelehrung 102 https://rechtsbelehrung.com/102-ttdsg-cookies/




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