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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Any interaction the website remembers, is cookies. Links that you opened are purple? That’s cookies. Changing font size? Cookies. “don’t show this again”? Cookies.
Useless warnings “we are using cookies. OK.” are a consequence of some websites selling your data, and thus by a new law having to warn you about selling your data.
But laws are never written perfectly, so as a side effect, all websites now remind you that every website uses cookies.
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