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  • TheBananaKing@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    third party cookies != cookies

    Unless they’ve invented a stateful http, cookies aren’t going anywhere.

    • Aux@lemmy.world
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      10 months ago

      You don’t need cookies to keep track of the state. JavaScript can do that without cookies, 3rd party clients can do that without cookies.

      • Liam Mayfair@lemmy.sdf.org
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        10 months ago

        Still, the use of cookies as key elements used to persist client session identifiers in the browser is too widespread and relied upon by prevalent web powerhouses like PHP for Google to do away with them.

        Moreover, as much as there may be more modern, sleek alternatives like browser session and application storage, you can’t realistically expect the entire web industry to completely migrate away from cookies just like that.

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          10 months ago

          and if you’re working on a site with a ton of subdomains, sharing the local/session storage data between them is a pain when compared with cookies.

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            10 months ago

            They definitely used to, but haven’t for a long time. It’s been viewed as an unreliable and poor practice, especially with browsers like Safari and Firefox which have already disabled 3rd Party Cookies for some time now (or at least providing the option to, as a privacy feature).

            Now CORS, OAUTH, and similar mechanisms do a better, more private, and more secure job of sharing state and authentication across domains and groups of services.

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          10 months ago

          The amount of tech relying on cookies is slowly decreasing. Removing cookie support completely today is not an option, but it will be in the future.

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        10 months ago

        Well there it is, the dumbest thing I’ve read on the internet today.

        Go back to basics and start with html.