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Cookie consent, explained without the legal haze
What GDPR and ePrivacy actually require, what is still just a proposal, and what changed in Google Consent Mode and Tag Manager. Written for people who run a website, not for lawyers.
EU Council Finally Agrees a Digital Omnibus Position: What Changes (and Doesn't) for Cookie Consent
The EU Council agreed its Digital Omnibus negotiating position on 21 October 2026, after two failed votes. Cookie consent rules stay in the ePrivacy Directive rather than moving to GDPR, with six new consent exceptions and a surviving one-click-refusal plus four-month cooldown rule.