Natasha JayI simply do not concede that any of your cookie vendors' interests are legitimate.
Jen Fizzbuzz@Natasha_Jay they never are
helle ๐ (stray cat girl(s))@Natasha_Jay @jen capitalism
there are court cases going on about the concept of "legitimate" in this
Walter van Holst@Natasha_Jay @liw They are not vendors either since they are not paid by the website publisher. It is all lies.
Greg@Natasha_Jay there's a useful plugin on Firefox, called, I think...uncheckAll
John Faithfull ๐๐ช๐บ๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ณ๓ ฃ๓ ด๓ ฟ๐งกโ๐ปโ๐ฟ
Gerard Cunningham โ๏ธ
Renรฉ SeindalThey, however, do concede that the other interests are illegitimate.
Ben Royce ๐บ๐ฆi think we need a time machine to go back and find the guy or gal who named them "cookies"
cookies are nice, in the real world
not so nice in web browser behavior
convince them to instead call them
"GPS unit your stalker magnetically attaches in the tire well of your car"
edit:
found them
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lou_Montulli
LOU MONTULLI WHAT THE FRACK
why "cookie"?
wtf
xinit โ"In 2022, he was recognized among Hidden Heroes for his significant technology contribution, including the HTTP cookie and Lynx.[5]"
Hidden Hero. For the cookie.
to Lou's credit, the way he originally intended the cookie was probably originally just "this user prefers dancing hamster gif and not dancing baby gif when they visit your geocities page"
but the door to evil was opened
@benroyce The sigils were inscribed, the sacrifices were made, the Circle of Protection was drawn, but imperfectly.
"i just wanted to bake everyone some nice cookies!"
alas, the cookies contained radon and botulism
็ใดใฃใฏใทใผ@benroyce @Natasha_Jay They seem nice, but they are addictive and will make you obese.
That's why it's important not to accept all cookies.
ElectropictJust bear in mind:
You're the ingredients and the baker, and your user agent is the oven. They're eating. And not paying.
Mathias โ๏ธ๐บ๐ถ is proudly 
@benroyce "It was derived from the term magic cookie, which is a packet of data a program receives and sends back unchanged, used by Unix programmers."
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_cookie says just "The term magic cookie appears in the man page for the fseek routine in the C standard library, dating back at least to 1979", so the answer seems to be Arcane C History Stuffโข. Lou isn't to blame!
Phogna Bologna@mathias @benroyce @Natasha_Jay this ๐. All you had to do was click one more link on the page and you'd get the whole story!
Christina Jennifer@mathias @benroyce @Natasha_Jay "cookie" (as well as "magic cookie") derives from the biscuit. A quantum of data in a protocol is called a "packet". A cookie is effectively a receipt for the packet.
"I gave you an entire packet, you gave me back a cookie."
G@benroyce @Natasha_Jay at the time, every workstation at the universities had a cookies.txt file saved to the desktop with a lengthy essay on why the world would end when browsers starting enabling cookies. alas.
the irony of the double speak was very poignant even at the time. there was no innocence.
the irony of the double speak was very poignant even at the time. there was no innocence.
Alex 
StuartB@Natasha_Jay What's that you say?
In return for me reading the click-bait, AI-written, totally devoid of facts piece of drivel you are trying to pass off as serious journalism (so, anything from the Daily Mail or NYT, then!), you want your 1853808642664 partners to be allowed to follow my every movement around the InterWebNets for the next 10 years?
Yeah, sounds good to me.
What's that?
Oh, 90% of them also want to track my physical location for a similar period?
Yeah, why not.
Oh, most of those want access to all my photos, call logs, messages, and emails?
Sure, what could possibly go wrong?
*throws phone in the bin*
Madagascar_SkyTheir Interests are legitimate . . . to earning those fat stacks of cash!!!
tetsujin1979@Natasha_Jay I maintain that if a site genuinely does care about my privacy, they wouldn't use cookies in the first place
masukomi@Natasha_Jay I am ashamed to admit that it took me a while to realize you werenโt talking about the type of cookie vendors who supply baked delicious things.
I was racking my brain, trying to imagine what the interests of an illegitimate chocolate chip cookie vendor might be.
@masukomi
Understood ๐๐คฃ
Understood ๐๐คฃ
Cainmark Does Not Comply ๐ฒIf I click 'refuse all' then does that also mean the 'legitimate use' ones?
kit@Natasha_Jay Theyโre consent violations plain and simple.
Ride Theory@Natasha_Jay Well, except Girl Scouts.
รlbaum@Natasha_Jay The people who put this legitimate interest article in the law need to be impaled on a Cat. 26 Ethernet cable.