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It's always been like that, they just didn't use to have to ask.
Forcing these popups in our faces was punishment for fighting back during the battle for the internet. We lost, and the elites shoved insulting disruptive messages in our faces to remind us of our failure every time we browse. I was so disappointed.
Web developer here. Cookies were designed to get around the stateless nature of a web page, by enabling it to communicate with other pages from one visit to the next by saving things like the user's language preference. Marketing people saw this and said hey, let's generate a unique ID the first time a user hits our site, and store it in a cookie with information about their clicks, searches, etc. This will help us decide which ads to throw at them, and we can even sell that info to other companies so they can use it and add more info. It's a gold mine! Germany passed a law requiring transparency and user consent, forcing sites visible in Germany (i.e. the whole Internet) to display those warnings or risk legal problems.
Perfect, thank you
Dear old Internet Explorer in windows 98 and Me asked a lot.
Really? That was when I getting into web dev and IE got dynamic HTML, but I don't remember the cookie thing. I thought it was after German laws started requiring user approval. Long time ago. Come to think of it, Win98 was right about when the dominant influence at MS transitioned from geeks to accountants.