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Paradoxically, if you deny to accept any cookies from a website, the website won't recognize you as a repeat visitor, meaning that you will get a pop-up asking you to accept their cookies every time!

extension on April 18, 2012 [–]

Sites are allowed to use cookies for certain internal purposes without consent, and that is probably one of them.

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