You ever go to a webpage and it remembers a setting, or remembers that you are logged in?
The only secure way to do that is to write some sort of data to your disk in a designated folder.
These files can be abused by companies to develop targeted advertising and in some cases can be used to de-anonimize traffic (think dark web investigations)
You can consider privacy focused browsers and using incognito modes to make the cookies die after you close the session.
Check out the book "Extreme Privacy" by Michael Bazzel if this is something you want to deep dive.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_cookie
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You ever go to a webpage and it remembers a setting, or remembers that you are logged in?
The only secure way to do that is to write some sort of data to your disk in a designated folder.
These files can be abused by companies to develop targeted advertising and in some cases can be used to de-anonimize traffic (think dark web investigations)
You can consider privacy focused browsers and using incognito modes to make the cookies die after you close the session.
Check out the book "Extreme Privacy" by Michael Bazzel if this is something you want to deep dive.
I'll be watching for the answer as well. Good question OP
Like anything, cookies can be used for good or for nefarious purposes.
Here's a good primer:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_cookie
Got yer answers OP, I'm removing
It's all good. Thanks