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Browsers used to have this, sort of: https://i.imgur.com/AAm3AJs.jpg


Now I'm wondering why you were running this in 2019. I watch a lot of nostalgia game reviews on Youtube and get the serious urge to build a '90s era computer from time to time.


Same here. Running some ancient OS/software in a VM can be pretty satisfying though, especially since I don't have a whole lot of space for physical hardware.

Many games wouldn't work well in a VM, of course, there's no getting around that.


Browsers never displayed such a pop-up for cookies by default. You had to tweak settings, just as you do today (in today’s world it might require a browser extension, I don’t know).


I don’t think this is true. I recall this being taken on the default settings for that web browser. Web browsers like IE in that era showed scary pop-ups for all sorts of things - like there would be a pop-up for when you connected to a site over https!


If this were Reddit, I would comment that: IE.. it only took it nearly two months to display that message /s :)




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