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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Cookies are the easy way to let the website know who you are and store information like preferences. It’s like using an ID to show who you are instead of filling out paperwork all the time.

Websites make them hard to reject because they can’t store information without them. Even the fact that you rejected the cookie can’t be stored, so you will get asked again.

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