The phrase "accept cookies" is correct and usable in written English.
It is typically used in the context of websites asking users for permission to store cookies on their devices for tracking or personalization purposes.
Example: "To enhance your browsing experience, please accept cookies to allow us to remember your preferences."
Alternatives: "allow cookies" or "enable cookies".
Under the Security tab, also choose to not accept cookies from third parties.
Some, such as the information commissioner's site, explicitly asks users to tick a box agreeing to accept cookies.
Most browsers accept cookies automatically, but you can alter the settings of your browser to erase cookies or prevent automatic acceptance if you prefer.
While they are often put on computers without notification, users can set their Web browsers to accept cookies, block them or accept them case by case.
Benumbed by the fear of appearing insufficiently vigilant, we accept "cookies" on our computers that track our habits and electronic location devices in our cars that guide our way but never let us wander about unobserved.
Describing the new privacy features in Internet Explorer, Mr. Gates said they would let consumers decide what level of privacy protection they need -- whether, for example, the machine should accept cookies, the software deposited in consumers' PC's by Web sites to track visitors.
Browsers may be configured to ask before accepting cookies, too.
It is usually possible to stop your browser accepting cookies, or to stop it accepting cookies from a particular website.
Have you ever tried navigating around a website (or the web) with the preference on your browser set to "Ask me before accepting cookies"?
The collection and sale of consumer data and buying patterns has become a vast business of which consumers are largely unaware, although they actively contribute to it by clicking on ads, accepting cookies, and agreeing to be tracked.
By default, Apple's Safari browser only accepts cookies – small chunks of text with unique information such as the time of a user's visit to a site – which come directly from by the sites that users are browsing.
