Posted on 03/09/2021 12:43:47 PM PST by ransomnote
Muffins?........................
Until, of course, it doesn’t. Anyone remember Google’s old slogan, “Don’t Be Evil”?
Apart from their nefarious reputation for being exploited, cookies used to benefit your web experience too. Your browser can hold your ‘session’ on any website and keep you logged in, but cookies let you stay logged in between sessions. So for a site that you liked to stay logged in on, cookies could help you from the annoyance of having to log in every time you returned.
I have long since broke my lazy habit of staying logged into websites and have more recently adopted browser settings that deny cookies and delete them after closing.
Ooooo Donuts!!!!
This just means they have something better now.
Sort of like those useless START treaties. Each one came into effect limiting older technology when the next generation of technology was fully tested.
More Cowbell!
The Combine?
#halflife2 game reference check ✔
Since most of the ads that follow me around are promoting things I’ve already bought, I find such advertising to be a colossal waste of energy and resources. Like I’m going to buy a second refrigerator or do another home refinance a week later. Lol. They are a long way from Minority Report.
Hate it when clicking on a story launches a video presentation that shouts content at you while you try to read.
A script blocker will handle that. But might interfere with some functions that you use.
Scones.
Right. I certainly believe that. /s
They have something far worse than cookies. What I don’t know. But these evil criminals will keep tracking.
Mick and Keith are too old...................
Cookies are not this horrible sinister thing.
When you go to a website it stores information about your visit so that the next time you come you can jump right in.
This is not that big of a deal now, but was a huge deal in the beginning when bandwidth was slow.
You can also choose not to accept them.
yeah, when I buy a pizza online and get inundated with pizza ads. total waste of money
...and there goes my appetite.
P.S. I’d be more worried about what they want to replace them with.
Or when I buy a starter motor for a 2007 Triumph Tiger on line and then I get ads for starter motors for 3 weeks. Yep. Very intelligent use of resources. Lol.
“They’re the snippets of code...”
They are in fact text files, not code. All the code executes on the server side.
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