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Posted on 5th October 2024 |
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Anyone who uses the World Wide Web must have been presented a page where you can choose which cookies to accept, where one of the options is "Essential Cookies Only". As may readers are already aware, there are no such things as essential cookies; the web-site is being dishonest in claiming that there are. Cookies can be useful for a few things, such as remembering your user-id and password for sites that require you to log in, but even in these cases he cookies are not essential; you can simply log in again. Mostly, cookies assist content providers in tracking you: what site led you to their site, where you go next, and what content you are viewing. Web-site operators have valid reasons to track you. After all, they may be providing free content (e.g. new stories), and collecting data about you gives them a way to make some money to cover their costs, but that doesn't mean that we have to like it, or to cooperate with their collection of data. If there is an option to reject al cookies, I usually do so. The most honest cookie choice pages are those where the choice is:
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