When you visit a website, the computer stores the cookie in your web browser. This helps the website track information about how you use it, including pages you visit, what you download, and links that you click. It can be used to collect Marketing data, improve the usability of the website, and they can even be crucial to using the site properly we'll get to that later. Accepting cookies will give you the best user experience on the website, while declining cookies could potentially interfere with your use of the site.
For example, online shopping. Cookies enable the site to keep track of all of the items that you've placed in your cart while you continue to browse. If you've disabled cookies on your browser while online shopping, every time you clicked a new link, the items in your shopping cart would disappear! This would make online shopping virtually impossible and browsing the site completely impractical. This is one example of cookies being a necessity on certain sites.
Some users like accepting cookies for the sole purpose of saving your username and password logins for certain websites. If you don't recall accepting cookies for a specific website, it could be because you haven't!
Some web browsers have settings to automatically accept cookies, and you can change these settings to automatically prompt you to accept or decline automatically, or to automatically decline. At Eze Castle, our browsers automatically prompt you to either accept or decline cookies automatically, letting the end-user make the decision. Click the Privacy tab, and then, under Settings, move the slider to the top to block all cookies or to the bottom to allow all cookies, and then click OK.
Safari Click the Safari menu from the top toolbar. Choose Preferences. Click the Privacy tab. Click the Never checkbox for Block Cookies. Google Chrome Click the context menu in the browser toolbar to the right of the address bar. Choose Settings. And a social network might use cookies to track the links you click, and then use that information to show you more relevant or interesting links in the future. Cookies are generally used to improve the experience for users.
But there's been controversy from privacy advocates who would rather not have information about themselves being stored, particularly relating to their browsing habits. In short, it means companies need to get your explicit consent to collect your data. If a cookie can identify you via your device which most cookies do , then companies need your consent. That's why you see lots of websites asking for your permission before dumping a cookie on your computer. No, you don't.
If a cookie can identify you, you can decline the cookie completely. Websites that use these cookies have to get your permission — or risk huge fines under various laws. So if you don't want to store a cookie holding information about you, just say no. The flip-side of this is that some companies simply won't let you use their website if you don't accept a cookie. Particularly after the introduction of GDPR and the heavy fines that go with it , some websites will no longer give you access without cookie permission.
It's generally because some websites simply won't work as intended without cookies. But for the most part, you'll still be able to access the majority of the internet without accepting cookies. There are upsides to accepting cookies, of course. You'll get a more tailored experience with more relevant content, so it's usually worth accepting cookies — unless you're particularly fearful about privacy.
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