Essential cookies
Discussion
How do companies decide which cookies are so essential I can't opt out of having them?
From the BBC (as an example):
ckns_profile: Indicates that the Children’s Profile is currently active, rather than the signed in Parent Account. - This seems essential for protecting children
ckns_acad-gateway: Academy page language setting. - This seems essential, except I have never been on their academy page
atidvisitor / atuserid / idrxvr: The BBC’s analytics system uses cookies to gather information regarding visitor activity on the BBC's websites and other BBC online services. The data gathered is sent to AT Internet, the BBC's analytics partner, for analysis and reporting. The BBC uses this information to help improve the services it provides to its users. - This does not seem like it is essential to provide a service to me. Why is it essential that they give my data to a third party without my consent and what do they do with it?
From the BBC (as an example):
ckns_profile: Indicates that the Children’s Profile is currently active, rather than the signed in Parent Account. - This seems essential for protecting children
ckns_acad-gateway: Academy page language setting. - This seems essential, except I have never been on their academy page
atidvisitor / atuserid / idrxvr: The BBC’s analytics system uses cookies to gather information regarding visitor activity on the BBC's websites and other BBC online services. The data gathered is sent to AT Internet, the BBC's analytics partner, for analysis and reporting. The BBC uses this information to help improve the services it provides to its users. - This does not seem like it is essential to provide a service to me. Why is it essential that they give my data to a third party without my consent and what do they do with it?
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