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To: ransomnote

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.


15 posted on 03/09/2021 12:56:29 PM PST by Mr. K (No consequence of repealing obamacare is worse than obamacare itself)
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To: Mr. K

P.S. I’d be more worried about what they want to replace them with.


18 posted on 03/09/2021 12:58:05 PM PST by Mr. K (No consequence of repealing obamacare is worse than obamacare itself)
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Yeah.
Cookies provide state to the stateless web.
They keep me logged into FR.


32 posted on 03/09/2021 2:49:14 PM PST by Rightwing Conspiratr1
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“Cookies are not this horrible sinister thing.”

The word cookies will soon be woked out anyway. Some have chocolate chips.

wy69


45 posted on 03/10/2021 7:47:54 AM PST by whitney69
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