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by corin_ 5065 days ago
What looks scary to you? Most sites give you cookies without asking you, so why is being told that it happens more scary?

Anyway, the reason for it is an EU directive, find out about it from the UK government branch tasked with these things, the Information Commissioner's Office: http://www.ico.gov.uk/for_organisations/privacy_and_electron...