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Hey, have you ever heard of cookies?
by wmichelin 6y ago
Hey, have you ever heard of cookies?
- toastal 6y agoYeah, I'd be pretty mad if I had to log into a website every time I opened it or be blinded by a white screen at night when I toggled the dark theme last time I visited. There's so many good uses for storage to make things behave as one would expect. And it'd be a lot of friction to have permission dialogs for things as basic as cookies or localStorage.
- laumars 6y agoI agree cookies have proven to be a largely pro-user feature over time but do you remember the backlash from techies and reporters alike when browsers first started implementing cookies back in the 90s?
- inetknght 6y agoYup. Cookies are neat little chunks of things that a website puts on my computer that I then transmit back to it. What is localstorage? Localstorage isn't little nor is it necessarily transmitted back.