I wish there was some feature which told websites do not track me. If only someone thought of that… 🙃
Tons of websites will straight up tell you in their privacy policy that they ignore the DNT header. Lol.
I don’t get why we can’t just get a notification like for microphone access, but for cookies.
At least for third party cookies. Also I would like such a notification for every potentially dangerous javascript API. (that is all of them)
That signal is disabling cookies using an open source extension, right?
Because the only thing cookies are good for, to me, is retaining login information. Since you don’t log into the majority of sites, they’re utterly useless.
Afaik I can’t thing of any other usecase
Saving settings on a page you don’t sign into (though you could make your app use local storage for this instead)
though you could make your app use local storage for this instead
To be fair, that has the exact same problems with tracking as cookies. You can still easily put tracking codes in there, and I’m sure some trackers do. So there isn’t really a benefit to using LocalStorage from a privacy perspective.
I think Local Storage isn’t meant to be read server side, but that’s an easy line to cross if you’re determined.
I think Local Storage isn’t meant to be read server side
Nothing an AJAX request can’t “fix”.
With cookies you don’t need Javascript at all.
Exactly
I wish we just had a standard credential store in browsers. Then cookies would be almost completely useless even on sites that you’re logged into.
