I was feeling hungry that day, but I never imagined that I could end up like I did. Knowing all the stuff that I know today, next time I will be more careful.
If you’re here thinking: ‘how can someone eat that much!! 🤯’ I’m sorry to tell you that the title was just clickbait. (Although I do actually eat a lot of cookies )
In this post, I’m going to show how cookies on internet sites have gone wild.
I’m not new to cookies nor privacy issues on the internet, but a few days ago I was surprised when I accidentally saw how many cookies outlook was using when I opened my email.
I’m not saying that cookies count has a direct relation with privacy. But I’m surprised at how many each site ends up installing.
Some context before I post the screenshots:
- I live in Europe, so the GDPR banners are shown on almost every site and I accepted the default cookie options.
- I was logged in to some sites.
- It took me 5 minutes to enter all those sites, and cookies count adds up to 602
Here’s the list, ordered from biggest to smallest (screenshots below list):
| # | site | Cookies installed | Screenshot |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Outlook | 57 👑👑 |  |
| 2 | Buzzfeed | 53 |  |
| 3 | Gmail | 39 |  |
| 4 | Trello | 30 |  |
| 5 | Upwork | 29 |  |
| 6 | Amazon | 28 |  |
| 7 | AWS | 28 |  |
| 8 | 27 |  |
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| 9 | Airbnb | 26 |  |
| 10 | Apple | 24 |  |
| 11 | TechCrunch | 22 |  |
| 12 | YouTube | 22 |  |
| 13 | Meetup | 22 |  |
| 14 | Spotify | 21 |  |
| 15 | Cnet | 20 |  |
| 16 | 19 |  |
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| 17 | Atlassian | 19 |  |
| 18 | MSN | 17 |  |
| 19 | Yahoo | 16 |  |
| 20 | DigitalOcean | 16 |  |
| 21 | 16 |  |
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| 22 | Github | 16 |  |
| 23 | 15 |  |
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| 24 | 12 |  |
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| 25 | dev.to | 4 |  |
| 26 | HackerNews | 3 |  |
| 27 | GetAdvice | 1 (this is my site. I had to do it, sorry 😇) |  |
And here’s a list of some of my favorites cookies, just in case some gets hungry:
Photo credits: https://www.pexels.com/@leigh-patrick-14477