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Re:California moves to exempt Linux from its age-verificatio... by freehorse on Tuesday May 26, 2026 @07:50AM (#48278432)
Can browsers know which cookies are necessary for a site functioning, logins, etc and which are for tracking, ads etc? There are many ways one can eg block third party cookies and that helps and rarely causes issues, but tracking can also be done with first party cookies, let alone fingerprinting.

For example, firefox's "strict tracking protection" setting also breaks a bunch of websites.

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Re:California moves to exempt Linux from its age-verificatio... by 1718627440 on Wednesday May 27, 2026 @09:29AM (#48294045)
There are some browsers, that implement it like it was originally intended and asks the user for each cookie individually: Do you want to store "PHPSESSIONID=12345"? -> Yes. Do you want "AdTRackingID..." -> No. Do you want "AWStelemtry..." -> No, and reject all further.

Midori is an example for a graphical one, while there is Lynx for the terminal.

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