> Presumably the use of most of these cookies is to add you to
> commercial junk-email address lists? However, I can see some more
> disagreeable uses too.
Not really, it is just a way of harvesting information about your
profile. A kind of market research that is very helpful for sites
that are trying to attract big advertisers.
Every time you use your credit card, a "till harvester" gathers such
information.
Information harvesting is big internet business and is set to get
even bigger.
You can, of course, refuse to accept the cookie.
Al Hakim
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