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☑️ Cookies are placed on your machine by websites -- often more websites than you realize. We'll review cookies and how third parties can use them.
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Chapters
0:00 What Are Tracking Cookies?
0:10 What are cookies?
1:53 Advertising!
3:05 Third-Party Cookies
4:26 But there's more... Google
5:34 Blocking third-party cookies
6:11 Who cares?
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