Drinking game: When you select "Reject all non-essential cookies" from the pop-up, go check what are considered to be "essential" cookies in the privacy policy. Drink every time they're most definitely not essential.

the inception of the cookie

not-so-pseudoanonymized data

When cookies were initially invented, they were used to associate your device with an internet account via a unique identifier stored locally on your computer. Once social media engulphed the internet, it was unbelievably easy to link those identifiers with the Real You (talk about stranger danger!)

the Monster cookie

Cookies have extended past internet browser applications: