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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Websites have been using cookies since the NetScape browser invented them in 1994. And since google and facebook in the early 2000ths basicly any website that wanted to make money had them. The only diffrence is that since the eu introduced GDPR in 2016 websites now have to tell you that they are using cookies to track you. Btw tracking isnt the only reason for cookies, they are very usefull for a lot of things like a having shopping cart on a website like amazon would we a lot more difficult without cookies.

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