Things not available when someone blocks all cookies

Re:Things not available when someone blocks all cookies by marcosdumay on Wednesday August 31, 2022 @10:43AM (#32662665)

Well, I've reacted to the article with an "of course, the Google's browser breaks everything if you try to block tracking".

There is absolutely no reason for letting the javascript know that you've blocked some functionality. It just adds new tracking.

Anyway, the sensible thing to do is to store the values for the lifetime of the page. Simply throwing them away can be an option, but it's a bad default. Non ad based browsers do get it.

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Re:Things not available when someone blocks all cookies by aendruk on Wednesday August 31, 2022 @08:21PM (#32670117)

> absolutely no reason

An editor warning you that your work hasn’t been saved?

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Re:Things not available when someone blocks all cookies by oconnor663 on Wednesday August 31, 2022 @10:41PM (#32671249)

Or a page settings/preferences dialog reminding you that saving your settings isn't going to work. Sure maybe the user "should know that", but not everyone is totally in command of their own browser's settings.

Or a game warning you that your progress will be lost.

There must be tons of legit use cases.

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