# Cookies - so many cookies!

**URL:** https://www.twit.community/t/cookies-so-many-cookies/8305
**Category:** Internet
**Created:** [October 14, 2020, 6:34pm UTC](https://www.twit.community/t/cookies-so-many-cookies/8305 "2020-10-14T18:34:53Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author: ![carbonga](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/www.twit.community/carbonga/32/4496_2.png) [@carbonga](https://www.twit.community/u/carbonga)
#### Post date: [October 14, 2020, 6:34pm UTC](https://www.twit.community/t/cookies-so-many-cookies/8305/1 "2020-10-14T18:34:54Z")

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I know we all love to hate the “allow cookies” messages. At least those of us in regions that try to make cookie handing more transparent. However, I just followed a link on reddit to a site that asked me to accept 414 - four hundred fourteen - cookies with one single click. Out of which 37 cookies are deemed necessary. First time I clicked on “show details” on one of those. I am going to do that more often, I suppose.

Wonder whether posts on popular sites are astroturfed merely to lead you to a cookie jar in order to market trackers? Is that a viable business model nowadays?

 ![20201014_202520](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/uploads/twit/original/2X/b/ba9b854f00c9e943bdff5afbddcdf2ca8213ef15.jpeg)

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### Author: ![PHolder](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/www.twit.community/pholder/32/2439_2.png) [@PHolder](https://www.twit.community/u/PHolder)
#### Post date: [October 14, 2020, 7:18pm UTC](https://www.twit.community/t/cookies-so-many-cookies/8305/2 "2020-10-14T19:18:57Z")

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Wow! That’s several cookie jars full of cookies. Maybe just tell them you’re on a diet and disable 3rd party cookies. I run all my browsers with 3rd party cookies disabled, and I rarely have any issue because of it… and when I do, I just assume I probably can live without whatever I might be unable to access.

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### Author: ![knewman](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/www.twit.community/knewman/32/1153_2.png) [@knewman](https://www.twit.community/u/knewman)
#### Post date: [October 15, 2020, 12:57am UTC](https://www.twit.community/t/cookies-so-many-cookies/8305/3 "2020-10-15T00:57:06Z")

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Yea those cookie popups are auto-clicks for 99.999% of netizens. Thanks EU…

You may have already heard about this browser extension, but check out the EFF’s Privacy Badger - [https://privacybadger.org/](https://privacybadger.org/). I’m not big on browser extensions but this is one I whole-heartedly recommend.