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>Cookie banners exist because you need explicit consent to use tracking and advertising cookies
Wrong.
The cookie law doesn't give a shit about tracking or advertising. It is about collecting data as a whole, independent of the intend.
>If your website doesn't use cookies or use cookies for basic functioning of the website you do not need any banner.
That is a different thing that contradicts your previous sentence. "Only needs consent for tracking and advertising" is different from "Need consent for everything that isn't required for basic functionality".
Now be in awe about how vague "basic functionality" is. What is basic functionality? Is this up to every judge to decide individually?
Guess what this led to? Right: Everybody gives you a banned, no matter if they track you or not.

But you know this.
Because you only have to exist and use the internet to know this.
Do you only see those banners on websites that sell your data, or do you see them on every single wordpress blog and hobbdy website?