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What's wrong and misleading about each of the four quotes you've picked?

• ZoFreX 15y ago
  "a small file of letters and numbers downloaded on to a device" isn't a very good summary of what a cookie is, in my opinion. > Also, not everyone who visits your site will do so using a browser. They may, for example, have used an application on their mobile device. What do they mean by this? A mobile browser should still have an option regarding cookies. If it's not a browser but some other user-agent... well what could it be? If it's an app hitting your site over an API cookies are unlikely to be involved, but shared state could be maintained any way you want it to be (plus this hardly counts as a "website"). The third quote is just horrible, horrible advice. A lot of the options they discuss are genuinely dreadful from a user experience point of view, and it seems that European websites will be forced to have worse experiences than all other websites. From a competitive view this is not good. Finally analytics cookies... If you have to opt-in to Google Analytics that will put a severe selection bias on your data, it'll make many important metrics (uniques, page views, time on site, bounce rate) completely worthless.