I'd like to avoid having the cookies banner on my websites where possible. Could I store session id's in localStorage to bypass implementing the banner?
Is localStorage under The Cookie Law?
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If you don't use cookies at all then it would be a huge misinformation to warn your visitors about using cookies. It may even be useful to explicitly state that you don't use cookies. Remember that warnings about cookies are for people who want to avoid cookies so they should know when they finally get to a rare website that doesn't use them. But you may still need to warn about other things, like local storage. Just don't call it cookies if those are not cookies because it would be a misinformation that can even be against the law.According to The EU Cookie Law website:Is is just cookies?No - The law also affects anything that acts like a cookie, for  example:Flash CookiesHTML5 Local StorageThe ICO has said that it isn't good  enough to just re-implement the tracking some other way outside of  cookie storage.According to The Cookie Collective:There are other technologies, like Flash and HTML5 Local Storage that  do similar things, and these are also covered by the legislation, but  as cookies are the most common technology in use, it has become known  as the Cookie Law.See also:Localstorage vs. Cookies vs. The law by Johan van Tongeren