Internet Cookies

I am really beginning to hate these internet cookies,  more and more often, as I browse internet web pages, pop-ups of website cookies asking permission to be installed on my computer, phone, tablet and it is becoming extremely annoying.

So what are cookies, and why would I want them in the first place?   There is more than one kind of cookie, and just like a real life cookie, some you want to have, and there are some you don't.

First, the good types of cookie that is present on most devices:

Session Cookies: only exist in temporary memory and are deleted when you close the browser. Any cookie created without an expiration date is automatically a session cookie. A common uses for session cookies include remembering what’s in your shopping cart on an e-commerce site

 Persistent cookies: are written onto your device’s memory and come with an expiration date. They are only used by the website that created them, and can last however long the website dictates. They remain on your device even after you close your web browser. Your web browser uses first-party persistent cookies for many personal sites, like remembering that you’re signed in so you don’t need to log in every time you visit the same site.

Now the bad types of cookies (Who likes raisins anyway?):
 

Third-party persistent cookies: also known as tracking cookies, like the first-party session cookies, they are stored in your device’s memory and have a set expiration date. Unlike the session variety, however, third-party persistent cookies are accessed on websites that didn’t create them.
This allows the cookie’s creator to collect and receive data any time the user visits a page with a resource belonging to them.

 Some of the most common resources that use tracking cookies include:

• Advertisements
•  Social media widgets, (share buttons, comments section)
• Web Analyzers 

 And the some of the biggest name companies that use these are:

• Facebook
• Google
• Twitter

So there is some basic information for all of us out there, I even learned new stuff in my research. But the real problem about all these E'ffing cookies is that you don't know which one's are going to be installed on your computer, it is not stated clearly, and if you were to find out you would probably have to read the "Terms and agreements" for each cookie downloaded on your computer.(That is if you could understand the terms in the first place.)

I don't have the patience for all that. What I do instead is close the page, find a different one without the cookies demanding to be allowed to be installed on my device. Or I simply hit the X button and don't agree to anything,  there are literally billions of pages out there, and I'm sure I can find my information elsewhere.

Scott Goerz