Why do sites keep bugging me about cookies?

- You probably notice websites making you accept the notification that their website uses cookies. Oh, don't mind if I do, and it all seemed to start at the same time with a lot of sites. So why do these sites keep bugging me about cookies? Oh, another one, all right. Well, the General Data Protection Regulation, also known as GDPR, is regulation in European Union law on data protection. Its goal is to get consumers, that's you, control over what is stored about them and to make it easier for consumers, again you, to find out how that information is being used. Now, since websites can't always tell where their users are, everyone sees these disclaimers, whether they're in the E.U. or not. This means websites have to tell you if they're storing any information about you. A cookie, okay, isn't as tasty as you'd hope. (paper scraping) It's actually just a small text file that a website stores on your device. A site can store data in a text file and then retrieve that data later, there ya…