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Re:Google, Microsoft, Meta All Tracking You Even When You Op... by rockskon on Tuesday April 14, 2026 @12:12PM (#47767547)
Cooking != Tracking?

That's historically been a very prominent purpose of cookies.

Sure it's not exclusively tracking, but it's nonsense to make the assertion that "Cookies != Tracking"

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Re:Google, Microsoft, Meta All Tracking You Even When You Op... by tlibert on Tuesday April 14, 2026 @01:02PM (#47768244)
Cookies serve a lot of valuable purposes, it's important to disambiguate.
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Re:Google, Microsoft, Meta All Tracking You Even When You Op... by rockskon on Tuesday April 14, 2026 @01:27PM (#47768525)
Sure. But given the lack of specificity from the person I was responding to, it felt important to correct.
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Re:Google, Microsoft, Meta All Tracking You Even When You Op... by dec0dedab0de on Wednesday April 15, 2026 @10:30AM (#47779525)
Sure it's not exclusively tracking, but it's nonsense to make the assertion that "Cookies != Tracking"

They're not primarily for tracking either.

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