If you’re using the internet, you’re bound to be greeted by a cookie consent pop-up that seeks consent to track you and promises to use the cookies to enhance your browsing experience. The infiltrative behavior of cookies, which track your movements on the Internet, raised privacy issues.
The privacy concerns of internet users led to the creation of a few laws and regulations, namely the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and consent management platforms (CMPs), which went into effect in 2018. However, countless sites still outright violate regulations and deceptively track users’ activity.
Cookies were invented in 1994 by 23-year-old engineer Louis J. Montulli II, who pioneered elements like HTTP proxying. He coined the term “cookies,” which he used in Netscape, the firm that designed one of the internet’s first widely used browsers called Mosaic. Soon after the advent of cookies, people started speaking up about the privacy concerns accompanying this information.
Cookie blocker need of the hour
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