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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Actually I kind of have the opposite question. If the purpose of cookies is nefarious (so they can make money selling your data) then why do they give you an option to opt out at all?
If the answer to the above question is that they’re legally required to let you opt out, then why do some websites streamline it by giving you a “reject all” button when they could make it a pain in the ass?
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