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Re:Cookie Warning Shenanigans Have Got to Stop by SilasX on Wednesday March 13, 2019 @05:27PM (#19384030)
It was pretty common! Check out this Onion parody (from 2002), which refers to a website prompting you to accept cookies:

>"She goes apeshit whenever a pop-up window comes up. And one time, she paged me because she got a message about accepting cookies. She was all freaked out because now she thought she was being charged for actual cookies."

https://local.theonion.com/getting-mom-onto-internet-a-sisyp...

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Re:Cookie Warning Shenanigans Have Got to Stop by volkk on Wednesday March 13, 2019 @05:47PM (#19384231)
wow this is amazing. clearly this lady was ahead of her time typing cheesecake into the "address bar" and expecting search results.
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