No, this is either because they have no idea what they are doing, or because they like bossing people around in return for not getting their way regarding user data while pretending this behaviour is because of consumer-unfriendly EU regulations.
It's perfectly fine to set cookies that are necessary for providing the service without having to ask the user.
They only need to get one's permission if they want to do other things like selling data to advertisers.
It's perfectly fine to set cookies that are necessary for providing the service without having to ask the user.
They only need to get one's permission if they want to do other things like selling data to advertisers.