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Which generation refused cookies?
I feel like most look at me like I'm crazy, regardless of age, when I deny/only accept the functional cookies on sites every single visit.
There's UBO filter-lists for that.
I just have my browser set up to delete all cookies whenever I close it. You want to set a cookie, knock yourself out, website.
(I do also have various things that block some, but if more people just had "delete cookies at browser close" as default, that'd be a big deal.)
Yeah, I don't think the two groups of people named in this post have much overlap. They seem pretty distinct to me as well
When the Financial Times published the article, "This Bug in Your PC is a Smart Cookie" on 12 February 1996 I remember quite a lot of people getting upset about it. At the time most were on dialup so you had a different IP assigned every time you connected so the idea you were being tracked in any way was a shock.
https://github.com/cavi-au/Consent-O-Matic can help with some of that.
Should be denying all. I refuse to use websites that say there are "functional" or "required" cookies. That's bullshit. Also use extension that block and/or scrub cookies.
What about "persistent" cookies? I spent hours and was unable to find them, let alone remove them.
Some cookies are useful, like the ones keeping you logged in. Not all cookies are created with the sole purpose of tracking you.
Apart from keeping you logged in, like the other commenter mentioned, cookies can for example be used to save the theme you are using (light/dark) or the language you picked. It would be annoying to have to reselect that every time you move to a different subpage.
Your browser passes theme and language recommendations to every site you visit. So outside of passwords, there are fewer reasons for cookies than you may presume.
uBlock origin has a filter available for these cookie popups