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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If I’m a toy company and I want to get your parents to buy you our toys for your birthday then I need to know exactly what you looked at and as much information as I can get about you.

Because of that we use cookies and then track your viewing habits on our website and also on other websites and then cross examine them to pinpoint what toys we show ads for and what products we should make.

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