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Re:How Google is forcing us to make our open source VoIP app... by happymellon on Friday October 21, 2022 @12:38AM (#33284573)
You are allowed a session cookie if it is for the operation of a website.

You don't need to ask permission to store a shopping cart or anything like that as a cookie.

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Re:How Google is forcing us to make our open source VoIP app... by someweirdperson on Friday October 21, 2022 @03:45AM (#33285561)
I agree, it's not necessarily only login credentials, but could be a shopping cart. However, no shopping cart is needed until the user adds an item to it. Watching the shopping window doesn't need a cookie.

The typical practice seems to be to set a session-cookie unconditionally, to be able to store user-related data within that session, even if the user has not provided any such information.

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Re:How Google is forcing us to make our open source VoIP app... by happymellon on Friday October 21, 2022 @04:23AM (#33285807)
Are you using that cookie for tracking or analytics?

If not then that's fine.

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