When agreeing to cookies on a website, what exactly am I agreeing to?
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Cookies are often used to track your preferences when you visit a site. Examples: What sections you visited, types of products you looked at, what default settings you prefer, etc. so that next time you visit the site it can load those preferences for you automatically.
Also, other sites can also look at your cookies and set their preferences accordingly. Which is why when you do a Google search for cowboy boots, you suddenly see ads for cowboy boots everywhere you go on the web.
Besides this being somewhat annoying for some, cookies can also be dangerous for others, e.g. a woman in an abusive relationship who may have secretly been looking for a women’s shelter could inadvertently give away that fact to her abuser.
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