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Re:We Outsmarted CSGO Cheaters with IdentityLogger by latexr on Wednesday October 16, 2024 @03:20PM (#41862795)
Not every cookie requires consent.

https://commission.europa.eu/resources-partners/europa-web-g...

In this case, this one might fit:

> User centric security cookies, used to detect authentication abuses and linked to the functionality explicitly requested by the user, for a limited persistent duration

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Re:We Outsmarted CSGO Cheaters with IdentityLogger by beeboobaa3 on Wednesday October 16, 2024 @05:38PM (#41864097)
It's clearly a tracking cookie.

> for a limited persistent duration

FTA:

> However, the VGUI browser had no issues saving cookies with expiry dates exceeding 10+ years!

So no, it doesn't even qualify.

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Re:We Outsmarted CSGO Cheaters with IdentityLogger by blahyawnblah on Thursday October 17, 2024 @12:00AM (#41866293)
10 years is a limited duration
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Re:We Outsmarted CSGO Cheaters with IdentityLogger by beeboobaa3 on Thursday October 17, 2024 @09:19AM (#41869414)
So is a million years. Not how it works.
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