I always reject them, but mostly because I never really understood what their purpose was.
Is it to track my info and send me a bunch of emails I don’t want? Do websites even need cookies? Why do they use them?
I always reject them, but mostly because I never really understood what their purpose was.
Is it to track my info and send me a bunch of emails I don’t want? Do websites even need cookies? Why do they use them?
Theres already some great answers to your actual question, but id like to add some context to the underlying question.
Firefox now does tab containerisation by default. Cookies are only shared between tabs for the same domain. This defeats the main problem with cookies - tracking you around the web.
Theres an addon called “i still dont care about cookies” which just accepts cookies dialogs, because there’s no good reason not to accept them really.
LibreWolf (or other plugins for firefox) can purge cookies when you exit, but having to log in to everything every time really sucks when a lot of sites are only doing email 2fa now.
More recently, sites track you with fingerprinting which is very difficult to defeat. Sites gather all sorts of information about your device and use it to identify you. LibreWolf is hardened against this but my browser is still “unique” when tested.