The life of a cookie can be summed up as follows:
Birth: the cookie is created and placed on your site
Life: the cookie is present and active on your site
Death: the cookie is no longer active
To be born and live on your site, a cookie needs the script that generates it and makes it work.
As soon as the Axeptio solution is implemented, it blocks the execution of scripts that allow cookies to be installed and operated, but does not delete cookies that have already been placed.
✅ As a result, the presence of a cookie after consent modification is explained as follows:
Consent: initially the cookie is accepted
The script is executed, loads the cookies and places them
Non-consent: subsequently the cookie is refused
The script is now blocked, rendering the cookie inactive; the cookie is still present because it was placed initially
✅ Without the action of its script, a cookie cannot transmit any data. It is therefore "dead", inactive.