What happens to my data if I ignore the “accept cookies” button on a website and continue to browse it?
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Try it by disabling cookies entirely. Some sites work, some do a check and refuse to continue… not because cookies are actually required for anything (except login). They just choke “because fuck you”.
If you’re rolling without cookies you can block the popup by using an adblocker like ublock origin. Right click on the page and choose block element, hover over the element you want to block.
Cookies are kind of way of how websites can keep in track of you you did in their website and how can profile you as a user.
It is mostly used to have a “better” user experience and recommend some stuff based on your history.
Imagine if you go to a restaurant and order a food . The restaurant will keep in track what you were looking at the menu and what you have ordered.
Next time you go to that same restaurant, they are already familiar with what you have ordered and will recommend food for you based on your previous orders .
In some cases, some restaurants can use another company to keep track of you. Let’s say “Ad Company”. They will use Ad company to keep track of your orders / behaviours and will recommend foods based on it.
If other restaurants use the same Ad company, then they can kind of share your behaviours to each other for “better food suggestions”
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