I Hate Online Cookies
@arthurchappell (44941)
Preston, England
August 8, 2018 12:34pm CST
When online data protection laws changed recently in the UK, it led to virtually every website I visit, including many I have been signed up to for years, demanding that I read and accept their new terms and conditions of service. This gets really irritating as the demand for my agreement acts like a pop up ad and freezes over the pages I want to browse until I address the situation.
I hate cookies as they are often how advertisers and spammers home in on us, but clearing our browser history can mean having to rejoin pages we use a lot over and over again. The internet is joined together by cookies.
I do still like edible cookies of course, hence the Youtube of Sesame Street's The Cookie Monster.
Arthur Chappell
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@Shellyann36 (11383)
• United States
10 Aug 18
It has been very frustrating with the cookie popup agreements for me as well. I do love the cookie monster type of cookies though.
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@Shellyann36 (11383)
• United States
13 Aug 18
@arthurchappell Yes, he is great and has great taste in cookies.
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@arthurchappell (44941)
• Preston, England
11 Aug 18
@Shellyann36 yes Cookie Monster is great
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@JohnRoberts (109841)
• Los Angeles, California
8 Aug 18
The only cookies I like are the ones in my mouth.
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@arthurchappell (44941)
• Preston, England
8 Aug 18
@JohnRoberts same here, hence the song
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@Aquitaine24 (12000)
• San Jose, California
8 Aug 18
I hate the harassment of having to accept new terms or change my password.
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@arthurchappell (44941)
• Preston, England
8 Aug 18
@Kandae11 I guess the name cookies makes it sound like something we want and like though it often just the opposite
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Yes the edibles are fantastic but online a blinking nuisance for every site to have to okay them.