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It's not even "Incognito" (what a misnomer too), this is a Gecko-based browser
I see that i directly close the thing
I agree mildly infuriating "pointless cookies" really - they make their money from advertising and tracking data, so they've made a choice.
Interestingly, a choice that I'm pretty sure would fall foul of GDPR in Europe - but a choice.
When is the world going to admit that by and large, internet advertising is garbage and doesn't work? People are far more likely to buy whatever random crap sponsor is on their fav youtuber's videos than anything from "targeted advertising".
Does it not work though?
It's hard to imagine that companies are just happily pissing away money on advertising for absolutely no reason. I agree that standard banner ads you see in articles seems pretty useless, but I can imagine other formats being more effective. Youtube ads, either as part of the content or interrupting it, seem decently effective, given that they're essentially the equivalent of TV ads. Speaking personally, I actually went to a cabaret-style show recently that I learned about through an Instagram ad, and had a really great time there. The performer asked how people had heard about it, and quite a lot were through Instagram.
And suffice it to say that, given that the title of this show is "Spooky and Gay", that ad was very much targeted lol, and effectively. I honestly can't say I'm that upset about it. I don't think it's so much the very concept of targeted advertising that I dislike so much as just the fact that it's so often done very poorly.
It works often enough, and that amount is enough for Google and Facebook to become two of the largest companies in the world. If it didn't, people probably wouldn't have kept doing it this long. It may not work on you, but in that case you probably aren't representative of the general population.
If it didn't work, do you really think "profit at all costs" businesses would be spending millions of dollars to do it?
The website has the right to choose when you can use it unfortunately. If you don't like the decision, don't use it. Or you could just use a content blocker if the cookies are the issue.
It's not their business to know or dictate how to use my browser. It's like they were telling me I can only browse their site while wearing pink socks or something.
If you're worried about cookies just use a content blocker like uBlock or a cookie delete browser extension. What is the website in question here?