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The setting of the cookie (the HTTP protocol) is not responsible for hurting anyone. People are, through negligence. I would have accepted a case wherein a use

The setting of the cookie (the HTTP protocol) is not responsible for hurting anyone. People are, through negligence. I would have accepted a case wherein a user in the arctic, with limited bandwidth, was hurt due to the cookie data interfering with the communication. Hand waving about a series of human failings being connected to a technology is not compelling. I guess it's the same argument as the "gun" isn't responsible for gun violence, excepting cookies aren't even designed to reveal information. Guns are definitely designed (in part) be used against people.

matheusmoreira 7y ago
> The setting of the cookie (the HTTP protocol) is not responsible for hurting anyone. People are, through negligence. It's not just any cookie though. You specifically mentioned tracking cookies. > Nobody has ever been hurt by a tracking cookie in the history of the internet. These cookies exist for no purpose other than information collection. They aren't even required for the website to function. This isn't negligence, it's imprudence: being reckless with people's personal information, amassing large amounts of it in the name of profit without stopping to think about the consequences. This isn't unique to cookies either. It applies to every browser fingerprinting method.