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Some websites I have visited during the early 2010s such as some flash game websites allowed users to vote as guests.

To keep votes accountable, some sites solely relied on browser cookies, meaning that if I deactivated cookies in the browser, and ran an auto clicker software, I could upvote some resources as often as I wished.

I guess no web developer is this foolish in 2020, but in the early 2010s, some web developers actually were.

I remember it having worked once on LEGO.com video resources. I added >5000 likes to some video I found there just for testing.

I guess the LEGO.com site developers did not expect children to figure that out, and were surprised when one video suddenly got >5000 likes in one day.

Some websites I have visited during the early 2010s such as some flash game websites allowed users to vote as guests. To keep votes accountable, some sites **solely relied on browser cookies**, meaning that if I deactivated cookies in the browser, and ran an auto clicker software, I could upvote some resources as often as I wished. I guess no web developer is this foolish in 2020, but in the early 2010s, some web developers actually were. I remember it having worked once on LEGO.com video resources. I added >5000 likes to some video I found there just for testing. I guess the LEGO.com site developers did not expect children to figure that out, and were surprised when one video suddenly got >5000 likes in one day.

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FIrst off, to talk about it as being text file isn't very helpful for most people. That's like talking techno-geek-gibberish to your client or business stakeholder. How the fuck does that help a non-techie understand wtf a cookie is?

A cookie is a piece of data. It's used by a server to track who the client is.

Of course it could be used for nefarious shit. How else do you think ads follow you wherever you go? Your online behavior is being tracked and someone is paying for it. Sometimes advertisers who just to sell you useless Chinese trinkets. Sometimes three letter government agencies. Sometimes it's not sold at all, and it's used for internal reasons that are of no consequence to the user.

we agree, cookies aren't to blame here, people colluding to fuck over everyone through some data "grey market" are, to be clear

We may agree or not. It's hard to tell because initially you passed it off like it's completely harmless tech and of no possible concern to anyone, but now that I called you out on it, you're back-paddling to make it seem like we were just saying the same thing the whole time.

If cookies are STDs so is localstorage, so is the fucking browser cache, so is the fucken entire internet

They are. What's your point?

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>FIrst off, to talk about it as being text file isn't very helpful for most people.

Oh yeah because that's going to be helpful to call it a "data set" or "ASCII file" or "data file" gtfo, normies know what a text file is, there's text and file in it, and that's what it is, that's fine

>That's like talking techno-geek-gibberish to your client or business stakeholder.

Oh yeah... Text file is soooooooooooooooooooooooooo "techno-geek", fuck you

>A cookie is a piece of data.

Are you serious or retarded as fuck? You lost all normies with your "piece of data"

Jesus christ

>It's used by a server to track who the client is.

No shit sherlock

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Triggered?

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Why are you projecting here?

This thread is about client side cookies and lame web practices, you go off topic, you get your ass handed to you, and now you are going to pretend what? That you don't look like an idiot?

Tell me again how "a piece of data" is not at all techno-geek-gibberish to describe a fucken text file to normies you moron