Originally Posted by EDIflyer

I think just marginally faster as it doesn't need a full page reload but just (AFAIK) makes a quick AJAX call instead.

Originally Posted by plunet

It means that you accept all cookies - in Europe/UK and California we get popups when we access a site for the first time and can choose to accept or decline nonessential cookies. On flyertalk there are quite a few cookies, and none of them are especially tasty. But as you're in China, all your web activity is tracked in many different ways already, VPN or not, so a few cookies from Flyertalk should be the least of your worries.