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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They offer information that you get for free. The least that they want is to tell Google that you went to their website so that they can get a few cents out of it cause you saw an ad.

Sometimes they want to track the things that you like. So that they will show you the things that you like the next time you visit. That way you will visit them more frequently.

A lot of companies also likes to know what people are often looking for so that they can focus on manufacturing those instead.

Information on what people wants is extremely valuable.

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