Cookie Warning Shenanigans Have Got to Stop

Re:Cookie Warning Shenanigans Have Got to Stop by duxup on Wednesday March 13, 2019 @04:58PM (#19383694)

>I don't really see it as "what we couldn't do" but "what poor usability we have overcome". I'm glad we have cookies and other forms of local storage, especially for the latter there are many other benefits. Maybe one day we'll get Web SQL.

Yeah I think that's accurate.

It's a little weird sometimes reading all these articles about cookies, JavaScript, etc and I always think "But I use those things to ... give people things, convenience, data, help them do things." But so many times it's not treated as a tool, it's almost implied to be a negative thing.

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Re:Cookie Warning Shenanigans Have Got to Stop by mikeash on Wednesday March 13, 2019 @05:31PM (#19384069)

90% of web developers give the rest of you a bad name.

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Re:Cookie Warning Shenanigans Have Got to Stop by duxup on Thursday March 14, 2019 @01:47PM (#19391593)

I really wonder if it is more 90% of really visible things give a bad name.

Most just do stuff nobody sees at any volume.

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Re:Cookie Warning Shenanigans Have Got to Stop by mikeash on Thursday March 14, 2019 @03:25PM (#19392632)

That’s a good point. One bad web developer at, say, Facebook cancels out millions of people working on less visible stuff.

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Re:Cookie Warning Shenanigans Have Got to Stop by rhizome on Wednesday March 13, 2019 @10:04PM (#19385925)

give people things, convenience, data, help them do things

Have you ever reviewed how little you need in order to do all those things, outside of third-party dependencies? Any second guesses at all?

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Re:Cookie Warning Shenanigans Have Got to Stop by duxup on Thursday March 14, 2019 @07:54AM (#19388369)

I don't know what you mean exactly.

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