I hope you do not mind me telling of my cookies experience with a waterways site, writes Chris. [Surname shown in email.]
There was something that encouraged me to see in the site that interested me, so I accepted by pressing and accepting cookies, but within days I was showered with offers to accept this, that and the other.
One, proposing to come from Pay Pal, and as a customer, I suspected nothing, so I gave the details asked for. And to cut a long story short I was taken for just under £2,000, and I then realised it was a fake. Lucky in one respect, that I did not have my savings in that account.
I just cannot understand the often used expression that we are told to press the cookies button to safeguard our account, for it certainly does not. All it does is obviously sell the email addresses so then gets you loads of unwanted offers, and obviously some are fake and after your money.
It is obviously that people using cookies do so for some reason helpful to themselves, otherwise what's the point?
All I advise is take care and don't be suckered.
[narrowboatworld never uses cookies and never passes on emails addresses to others. In fact they are regularly deleted...]