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Re:Can the horrendous cookie banner by the EU be rolled back? by BjoernKW on Monday April 04, 2022 @10:35AM (#30907104)
Cookies serve a purpose. They can't just be used for serving ads that follow you.

Case in point: the very website we're using right now. While it's true that Hacker News would be possible without cookies, for commenting and voting you'd then have to log in each time your browser session has been closed, which would make for a less than optimal user experience.

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Re:Can the horrendous cookie banner by the EU be rolled back? by uniqueuid on Monday April 04, 2022 @10:44AM (#30907231)
My comment was obviously humorous.

But I'd honestly argue that your view of cookies is very conservative.

Why is the user experience less than optimal? Why can't the browser remember your credentials and automatically sign you on? (It could, of course - e.g. using client-side certificates!).

We should also ask ourselves whether the user experience on some website (which lasts seconds, and is mostly irrelevant) is more important than the privacy of its users, which will be impacted forever (through first-party data collection, third-party data collection and sharing / resale of data).

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