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Since I have an ad blocker, would consenting to this muck that up?
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Cookies are bits of data stored on your computer by/for sites.
For example-- You are on FA and the last thing he looked at was a picture of Rocket Raccoon by user So-and-so. FA could store what the last thing you viewed in a cookie on your computer. You quit your browser, reboot-- whatever.
Next time you open your browser on that same computer, FA could read that cookie and display some little box on the site that's labeled: "PREVIOUSLY ON FA..." and shows this picture of Rocket Raccoon by So-and-so.
Way back in the day, before databases were common and easy to integrate into websites, cookies served as a way for sites to temporarily store information about a user's session on a site. But with the advent of better web technologies, they've fallen by the wayside a bit (since they're specific to a single browser on a single machine). They're still useful for things like ads or third-party integration (like if IMVU had some tie-ins with FA) since those third-parties wouldn't need to know anything about the was FA stores data and vice versa.
The nice thing about cookies is that because the data is on your computer and only accessible by the domain of the site that wrote them, they alone cannot be used for data aggregation/collection. Back in the day people got huffy about them because they were creepy and took up precious space en masse on computers where space was a luxury.
For example-- You are on FA and the last thing he looked at was a picture of Rocket Raccoon by user So-and-so. FA could store what the last thing you viewed in a cookie on your computer. You quit your browser, reboot-- whatever.
Next time you open your browser on that same computer, FA could read that cookie and display some little box on the site that's labeled: "PREVIOUSLY ON FA..." and shows this picture of Rocket Raccoon by So-and-so.
Way back in the day, before databases were common and easy to integrate into websites, cookies served as a way for sites to temporarily store information about a user's session on a site. But with the advent of better web technologies, they've fallen by the wayside a bit (since they're specific to a single browser on a single machine). They're still useful for things like ads or third-party integration (like if IMVU had some tie-ins with FA) since those third-parties wouldn't need to know anything about the was FA stores data and vice versa.
The nice thing about cookies is that because the data is on your computer and only accessible by the domain of the site that wrote them, they alone cannot be used for data aggregation/collection. Back in the day people got huffy about them because they were creepy and took up precious space en masse on computers where space was a luxury.
Looks like folks have already given you good info on cookies.
Letting them through won't affect your ad blocker. If you turn the ad blocker off, letting them through would potentially target ads to your activity, instead of serving them at random.
They're also frequently used by the website itself to make your time there nicer. They can remember the last files, photos, or the page of a story you were viewing, and return you to that when you log back on the site. There are a lot of other things a cookie can do for you that are perfectly benign.
The 'third party' types are generally the ones more worth watching out for. These are cookies that aren't related to the site you're at. Instead, they're placed on your computer by some other agency that is using that site, often in one of their ads but sometimes by other methods. Those are frequently used for collecting information about your viewing or clicking habits, for sale to other people, and can be used to spam you with emails, pop up ads on other sites, etc..
Letting them through won't affect your ad blocker. If you turn the ad blocker off, letting them through would potentially target ads to your activity, instead of serving them at random.
They're also frequently used by the website itself to make your time there nicer. They can remember the last files, photos, or the page of a story you were viewing, and return you to that when you log back on the site. There are a lot of other things a cookie can do for you that are perfectly benign.
The 'third party' types are generally the ones more worth watching out for. These are cookies that aren't related to the site you're at. Instead, they're placed on your computer by some other agency that is using that site, often in one of their ads but sometimes by other methods. Those are frequently used for collecting information about your viewing or clicking habits, for sale to other people, and can be used to spam you with emails, pop up ads on other sites, etc..
I use 2 extention to manage this :
-one to auto accept any cookie to not be bothered by all these "do you accept" that are mandatory to accept to view the site
-one to automatically delete all the cookie that are not allowed by me when I close a web page, this way I keep connexion cookies.
-one to auto accept any cookie to not be bothered by all these "do you accept" that are mandatory to accept to view the site
-one to automatically delete all the cookie that are not allowed by me when I close a web page, this way I keep connexion cookies.
I have CCleaner and Spybot. Both programs are mean towards cookies as they do erase them.
If I see something that I like, into my Faves an image goes. Or, I can bookmark a favorite image and go view it later since neither Spybot nor CCleaner targets bookmarked media for removal.
As for the Cookie consent bar on the bottom of my screen, I do find it annoying. However, that just might be my POV.
If I see something that I like, into my Faves an image goes. Or, I can bookmark a favorite image and go view it later since neither Spybot nor CCleaner targets bookmarked media for removal.
As for the Cookie consent bar on the bottom of my screen, I do find it annoying. However, that just might be my POV.
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