ELI5- What exactly is the difference between accepting or rejecting cookies?

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And why do I feel so defensive when it pops up? Lmao I will go out of my way to reject all and I don’t even know what I’m rejecting

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The short and practical answer to this questions is:

If you accept all cookies, the average website will put a cookie on your device for every one of their dozens—if not hundreds—of 3rd party “suppliers”. This allows each and every one of those 3rd parties to build a profile of you around the web, usually for advertisement purposes.

If you reject cookies, the above doesn’t happen: Cookies that are actually necessary (like remembering your session, your shopping cart, etc.) don’t need your consent in the first place.

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