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The provision establishes a technical dependency between cookie acceptance and service access, making cookies a functional requirement for platform use rather than an optional feature.
Users operating under these terms must accept cookies to maintain access to the Services. Cookie disablement results in loss of platform access as a direct technical consequence.
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