What exactly are cookies that websites are using?
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A lot of them track your web browsing for the purpose of targeted advertising. When you click the “agree” button on a website’s cookie disclosure message, this collection of information is the most important thing you’re agreeing to. (In the past, they were allowed to do this without having you agree. Now, they have to give you that message box.)
Cookies also have practical uses such as remembering your login info between visits, remembering information you’ve entered somewhere, remembering items in your shopping cart, etc.
The upside to cookies is convenience while the downside is letting websites see your web browsing.
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