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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Anonymous 0 Comments

The cookie law is ridiculous and a perfect example of politicians passing laws without having the slightest idea what they’re doing.

Almost every site is going to have cookies, or use local storage, or have some kind of analytics persistence.

For people to have to worry about clicking a useless banner is an absolute waste of time and just confuses people.

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