The only reason to accept cookies is to login faster on your favorite sites. The other two functions of cookies are to track your web surfing behavior and collect data on you. Learn more about cookies here. Companies want to track your behavior to tailor their offerings to the exact person most likely to buy their product, at the time that person is doing research to make a purchase decision. They can also sell your information to third parties who want to sell to you. That’s why Google and Amazon are taking over the world.

When you go on the website of an ad agency, they always use the same lame excuse for having them in the first place: “cookies help us to improve the performance of our Sites and make the Sites more user-friendly.” Seriously? they’re ad agencies, not NetFlix.

By the way, when you use a site that offers services such as watching videos or connecting to certain social network, you will receive cookies from  those third party sites, including Facebook Instagram, Twitter, Vimeo and LinkedIn. And nothing says those third party companies will respect your privacy the way your favorite site does.

The real danger is when these social media sites have a data breach, like Facebook did last year.

You can see how easy it is for any individual or company to become a target. That’s why we like our cookie policy better.