Comment by mnw21cam

The important bit is that the cookies not only are irrelevant from the point of view of allowing tracking to occur technically, they're also irrelevant from a legal point of view. A company must have your consent to hold and process your information for a specific purpose, regardless of whether or not that is done using cookies or fingerprinting. If you have been presented with a consent popup and have not consented, and the company is tracking you by other methods, then that is illegal. (It'd be illegal also if they hadn't given a consent popup at all.)