A cookie is a dumb ass text file, it's not automatically an existential threat just because it's called "cookie", that's actually what I'm saying, if you didn't get that you have reading comprehension problems
>assuming they've colluded on centrally storing data
Yeah precisely, so it takes a little more than just a "cookie" to go full satan, we agree, cookies aren't to blame here, people colluding to fuck over everyone through some data "grey market" are, to be clear
If cookies are STDs so is localstorage, so is the fucking browser cache, so is the fucken entire internet
To be fair, a huge chunk of the internet is pure cancer.
lol, yeah, that's a fact
It's not called a web for nothing I guess
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?
>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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