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Cake day: June 24th, 2023

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  • That’s because they don’t have to let you do that and mostly it’s counterproductive to let you do that.

    A prime example for a cookie with “legitimate interest” is a session cookie. Your shopping cart or even staying logged in wouldn’t work without it, so it’s not a good idea to even give the user the choice.

    Legitimate basically means “needed for the function of what you’re trying to do on that website”, so ads are not it, but session cookies are. Everything in between is up for debate. (Usage tracking etc.)













  • Yeah, it’s not too helpful, but maybe they have no more data. If you want to know more, go to https://haveibeenpwned.com/ and enter you e-mail. They maybe know, where your data came from.

    Otherwise: Do you have a different and random password for each site? If yes, change your gmail password (in as it was gmail itself) and then watch the news, if a site you use was hacked. If you don’t have different password for each site… Well then you are gonna have a fun day changing all you passwords to new ones. And use a password manager and a new random password for each site this time, please.