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Logging into an account requires some kind of persistent identifier. And it is not just for shopping carts - you also have a login and cookie here on Hacker New
by goto11 7y ago
Logging into an account requires some kind of persistent identifier. And it is not just for shopping carts - you also have a login and cookie here on Hacker News.
- saagarjha 7y agoAnd such a cookie one that is necessary for the site to function, and as such not covered by cookie laws.
- Kiro 7y agoYes, but elric is arguing that even those kind of cookies are unnecessary. Meaning I would have to log in every time I visited Hacker News.
- saagarjha 7y agoI think they said it was unnecessary until you logged in, which was the thing that the Hacker News cookies were being used for?
- goto11 7y agoYeah agreed. I was just replying to elric who argued we shouldn't need cookies at all.
- takeda 7y agoCookies were introduced as a hack to allow sessions. When HTTP/2 was being proposed phk raised this issue and asked why they didn't use this as an opportunity to make real fixes to http warts like this and eliminate cookies[1]. But given that it was pushed by Google, which didn't mind them, this of course was ignored. [1] https://varnish-cache.org/docs/trunk/phk/http20.html https://varnish-cache.org/docs/trunk/phk/http20.html