What actually happens when someone ‘accepts all cookies’?
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When you visit a website you’re actually asking another computer, over the internet, for content – the pictures and videos and everything else on the screen. Accepting cookies means that this computer also sends a package of extra content that you can’t see that stays on your computer even after you leave the website. This is the cookie, and it’s there so that the next time you visit that website, the computer already knows who you are- it remembers what you did the last time you were there. Sometimes this is great because it will show you cool stuff that it knows you’ll like. Other times it’s annoying because they may use what they know about you to show ads on other parts of the internet. Some people don’t like that so many computers across the internet are remembering them and learning about them.
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