Honestly, considering the state of play at the moment the law is pretty much unenforcable. They literally can't fine everyone who is breaching it, they don't have the manpower.
And considering the ICO, the UK org that enforces these laws and where you have to go to find out the UK laws on it, literally just tell you that they use cookies to make their website work and don't ask for consent makes me think this is so much more complicate than any of us truly understand.
If they're setting cookies without consent with a user tracking id, I am going to guess that my session cookie falls under the same thing theirs does.
And considering the ICO, the UK org that enforces these laws and where you have to go to find out the UK laws on it, literally just tell you that they use cookies to make their website work and don't ask for consent makes me think this is so much more complicate than any of us truly understand.
If they're setting cookies without consent with a user tracking id, I am going to guess that my session cookie falls under the same thing theirs does.
https://ico.org.uk/for-organisations/guide-to-pecr/what-are-...'. - Check developer tools and cookies.