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I can’t imagine anyone on HN not understanding this distinction; I can’t imagine any parliamentarian does understand it. A website can not “set a cookie” in th
by jeofken 5y ago
I can’t imagine anyone on HN not understanding this distinction; I can’t imagine any parliamentarian does understand it.
A website can not “set a cookie” in the browser. The website can include a cookie that the user (agent) optionally can include in future requests. The user does not “accept” or “reject” cookies, but rather chose to include them in future messages, or not.
- kaba0 5y agoWhen disallowing setting such cookies will render the website unusable, this technical difference is not really meaningful. In practice a website can freely deny you usage without the correct semantic usage of cookies made up by them — that’s why laws are very important.
- zarzavat 5y agoThe user agent doesn't know what the purpose of each cookie is. It could be a purely functional cookie (like a session cookie for an e-commerce website) or an advertising cookie. The website has to allow the user to accept the former and block the latter.