When going through the cookie settings for a website or an app, some of the cookies are marked as “legitimate interest”. What exactly does that mean?

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    3 months ago

    It’s to differentiate the predatory ad-targeting/consumer-profiling cookies you’re meant to keep from the placebo ones you can turn off to feel more comfortable sharing your data with the data miners.