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   Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Tuesday, 28-Nov-2023 07:59:11 JST Aral Balkan

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   • Gabe Kangas

   @gabek One of Big Tech’s successes was to conflate first-party and third-party cookies. The former are harmless and useful; the latter, only good for surveillance. They shouldn’t even be called the same thing.

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     Gabe Kangas (gabek@social.gabekangas.com)'s status on Tuesday, 28-Nov-2023 07:59:13 JST Gabe Kangas
     Serious question: Why does anybody use Cookies? They have a negative connotation these days, and it’s a pretty lousy way to save state. I haven’t used cookies in years, I use local storage for anything that needs to be saved locally, and I send those values along in a header, payload, or parameter. Like you do everywhere else.
     
     Every other development platform, other than the web, doesn’t natively support cookies (some have bad support as a 5th class citizen that are never used). Why does the web need them? Why use them?