So that means Chrome won't spy on me anymore, right?
... right guys?
this post was submitted on 04 Jan 2024
4 points (83.3% liked)
Technology
62783 readers
2920 users here now
This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
Our Rules
- Follow the lemmy.world rules.
- Only tech related content.
- Be excellent to each other!
- Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
- Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
- Politics threads may be removed.
- No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
- Only approved bots from the list below, to ask if your bot can be added please contact us.
- Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed
- Accounts 7 days and younger will have their posts automatically removed.
Approved Bots
founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
third party cookies != cookies
Unless they've invented a stateful http, cookies aren't going anywhere.
You don't need cookies to keep track of the state. JavaScript can do that without cookies, 3rd party clients can do that without cookies.
Well there it is, the dumbest thing I’ve read on the internet today.
Go back to basics and start with html.
Lol ok.
Still, the use of cookies as key elements used to persist client session identifiers in the browser is too widespread and relied upon by prevalent web powerhouses like PHP for Google to do away with them.
Moreover, as much as there may be more modern, sleek alternatives like browser session and application storage, you can't realistically expect the entire web industry to completely migrate away from cookies just like that.
The amount of tech relying on cookies is slowly decreasing. Removing cookie support completely today is not an option, but it will be in the future.
There's also a lot of security gotchas when relying purely on JS.
Just lik with any tech. So what? Stop using internet alltogether?
Nah, cookies + JS is a solid authentication combo. But just JS without cookies is kinda vulnerable. Wouldnt want Paypal or taxes being purely Javascript authenticated.
Heres a fun article
https://betterprogramming.pub/understanding-auth-and-cookies-for-web-applications-33016c588cf9
The article is paywalled. And if someone is incapable of securing their JS app, that's on them. Cookies won't help.
Just because something exists does not mean that it should be used literally everyfuckingwhere
Go live in a cave.