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PrivacyChoice opts you out of third-party cookies

After surfing the web day in and day out, you've probably piled up a lot of advertising cookies. A lot of major ad providers, like Google, for example, save cookies and track browsing activity to provide better ad targeting. Unless you know that you can opt out of this stuff, you don't have much of a choice about this stuff. Privacychoice has collected the opt-out features of a lot of major advertisers in one convenient button, so you can stop all of their cookies at once.

Privacychoice works by giving you blank cookies for all of the sites on its list, so they don't have any information about you, but they also don't try to set new cookies without asking you. Sure, you could just set your browser to block ALL third-party cookies, but maybe you have some non-advertising sites with cookies you care about. Privacychoice is a way to get rid of annoying cookies without giving up the good ones. Be sure to switch off your ad-blocker when you're setting up Privacychoice, but go ahead and turn it back on when you're done.
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