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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As a web developer, cookies can literally be anything useful that you need to store to use later (so your browser doesn’t need to reload everything when you change pages, such as your login)
Nowadays because of data privacy laws this must be disclosed, regardless of how large or small. As others have said, this was pretty much always done (otherwise a login would be pretty pointless or you’d have to do everything on a single page and be pretty restricted), it has just become more transparent thanks to data privacy laws.
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