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Pretty much any site with a login is using cookies to do it
by davidcbc 8y ago
Pretty much any site with a login is using cookies to do it
- kikoreis 8y agoSure but to create a login there is a transaction of consent.
- finaliteration 8y agoExactly. No one -has- to add a cookie that tracks you across sites they don’t even own. They can easily be used for authentication and session management without scraping a bunch of personal information from every visitor, logged in or not
- iKevinShah 8y agoJust to add to this, if you disable cookies, localStorage also goes so not only cookies, any site using storage would also be impacted.
- PeterisP 8y agoSure, but I do not log in to the vast majority of the websites that I visit, and cookies aren't required for them to function properly unless I choose ('opt in') to log in.
- Bartweiss 8y agoTrue, and logins (along with browser games) leap to mind as the most widespread issue with general cookie-blocking. But I probably sign into <5% of sites I visit, and even many of those are actively user-hostile, like Quora. I understand why Quora wants me to sign in, but from my end of things it's no more worthwhile than being asked to sign into Wikipedia just to read articles. Broadly, I guess this is a gripe about how my web-use experience has become fundamentally adversarial. Cookies are one of many perfectly reasonable features which I cripple or disable even on respectable top-100 sites because they're used almost exclusively against my interests, but I'm not sure there's a good tech-level fix to that for users in general.