Why do seemingly ALL websites nowadays use cookies (and make it hard to reject them)?

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What the title says. I remember, let’s say 10/15 years ago cookies were definitely a thing, but not every website used it. Nowadays you can rarely find a website that doesn’t give you a huge pop-up at visit to tell you you need to accept cookies, and most of these pop-ups cleverly hide the option to reject them/straight up make you deselect every cookie tracker. How come? Why do websites seemingly rely on you accepting their cookies?

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At one point they used to make money by showing you ads. They do that still but they also try to mine data about you and sell that. There are hundreds of companies that provide this service to websites and these sites tend to use a lot of them. Over time this has ballooned so much that we now see literally hundred or more easily per site

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