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TheCatWoman

I get fed up when I go to a new website and spend ages turning off all the cookies and then finding that the site I'm looking at doesn't have what I want. 

I wish all site would have a reject all option right at the start, how do others cope with the nonsense?

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  • TheCatWoman said:
    how do others cope with the nonsense?

    It is a bit like the requirement to have insurance / MoT / driving license / road tax to be able to drive a car in the UK - this is just part of what is required by most sites to operate now.

    There are a number of technical reasons why some sites use them but by and large they are there to benefit the sites by gathering info on you and they make it so you need to accept some level of cookies before you can access the content they offer - a trade off I guess.

    The days of the "free" internet are mostly gone now and most want something from you in order to let you use them so it just means a few seconds to make the settings to give them the minimal level of cookies, and to visit it in a private browser session if you don't plan to return there.

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  • TheCatWoman said:
    how do others cope with the nonsense?

    It is a bit like the requirement to have insurance / MoT / driving license / road tax to be able to drive a car in the UK - this is just part of what is required by most sites to operate now.

    There are a number of technical reasons why some sites use them but by and large they are there to benefit the sites by gathering info on you and they make it so you need to accept some level of cookies before you can access the content they offer - a trade off I guess.

    The days of the "free" internet are mostly gone now and most want something from you in order to let you use them so it just means a few seconds to make the settings to give them the minimal level of cookies, and to visit it in a private browser session if you don't plan to return there.

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