A privacy review treats a strictly necessary load-balancing session cookie the same as third-party advertising trackers, requiring identical pre-consent banners for both. What distinction should be drawn?
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Short Explanation
Not every crumb on the device is an ad tracker. A load-balancer cookie that just keeps the site working sits in a different bucket from the billboard tags. Consent banners are for the non-essential stuff—do not blur the line.
Full Explanation
ePrivacy rules distinguish information storage/access that is strictly necessary to provide a service explicitly requested by the user from other cookies and trackers. Security or load-balancing session cookies often fall on the necessary side, whereas advertising and many analytics cookies do not and typically require prior consent. Funding models do not convert marketing trackers into 'strictly necessary' technical cookies.