1 file  /  4 kb  /  never expires Cookie cat on a kitchen counter

COOKIE CAT

I am a small file. Somebody dropped me into your browser years ago and then changed jobs. I do not track anything. I sit in there, and every few months a box appears asking whether you are alright with me, and you click yes without reading it.

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Where I have been sitting

close one if you like

closed: 0  |  still here: yes
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Cookie cat on a keyboard

I sit on the one key you need. This is not a metaphor about tracking, I just like the warm bit above the drive.

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Cookie cat inside a cookie jar

Stored with the others. None of them have a face. Nobody has ever once reached in and taken me.

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Cookie cat on a carpet of crumbs

You press it about twice a year, usually late, usually angry at something else. Everything goes. I am back before the page finishes loading.

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Cookie cat next to a glass of milk

Everyone assumes this is the plan. It is not. I dip one paw in, I think about it, and I go back to the keyboard.

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Cookie cat on an old monitor

There is a beige computer in a cupboard at your parents place with a version of me still on it. Same me, slightly worse resolution.

Cookie preferencesUPDATED NEVER
Strictly necessaryKeeps the site standing up. Cannot be switched off, you already know this.
AnalyticsWould tell somebody how long you looked at a cat in a biscuit costume. Nobody is reading it.
HimOne cookie. Round, orange, missing a bite. Also cannot be switched off, and this one is not a technical limitation.
COOKIE ID soon
stored on this device  /  expires: never  /  you did click accept
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