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Wow. That ask is very deceptive because cookies can't even do half of the things they are blaming on the cookie. Cookies can do this:

* Store information on a device.

Cookies cannot:

* Personalize ads (they can store identifying information that can be used to personalize an ad, but something else has to actually ask your browser for the data) * Actively scan device characteristics * "Access information" Cookies don't do that. Code (Javascript in the browser usually or something on a web server) that might use data from a cookie does.



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