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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In the past I simply had cookies disallowed in my browser (Netscape) settings and as far as I can remember every site worked just fine.
Then some politicians who were clueless about ICT thought it was a good idea to introduce this ‘cookie law’ because they thought it would ‘protect’ us. That gave web sites the excuse to force cookies on people because they were ‘necessary’, but not really. Now I cannot simply block cookies in the browser anymore. Thanks politicians. Great job. /s
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