As some of you may know the EU have brought in a law so a site has to ask you before it places a cookie on your system.
Frankly I work hard not to have pop-ups and external advertising because I cannot stand them!
Here's what 123-Reg say -

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Why a secure and PCI Compliant site should have to ask someone (who may not have a clue - even after an explanation) for permission to place a cookie on their system is just crazy!
We could implement this and on every page you land you are asked (see NVIDIA's site) or of course we could add another cookie to your system so our site doesn't ask you again! D'OH!

I will post a table of cookie information later.