UKking

What is the point of adding these to any given website?

In a way I can understand why corporate run sites add them, but that doesn't make them any less irritating. But what does the average Joe have to gain by adding tracking cookies to a personally owned/ operated site?

The common factor amongst sites that like to add these types of cookies to my computer are usually littered with ads. These ads are not small, nor is there just one. These sites usually have ads everywhere of all sizes and for all types of things, services and propaganda. I hate PETA ads...

My internet travels on any given day would put the most people to sleep so isn't as if I have anything to hide, it just bugs me that people feel it's their right to put their junk on my computer.