Weird cookies after reformatting

Hey, I recently reformatted my macbook pro (today) and after installing all the updates to the point where there were none left, i opened up safari, and set up preferences, and in the show cookies box, there were 2 cookies from weird sites, them being videolog.uol.com.br and rocinha.videolog.tv. My cookies option was set to accept cookies to only sites i navigate to. I don't understand how i Could have gotten any of them after reformatting my MBP and visiting just macrumors and gizmodo

Welcome to the Apple boards.
Simple enough to check. Delete the cookies and browse to the sites you browsed to and see if the cookies come back.
Some websites get around the "do not accept 3rd party cookies" one way or the other.
You could also have imported them if you chose to import anything after installing.
Some of us use a "hosts" file which redirects many of these to a "401 File not found" by pointing to 127.0.0.1. whenever a URL in the hosts file matches one in the real world.

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