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Old January 6th 19, 04:05 PM posted to alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt
Char Jackson
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On Sun, 6 Jan 2019 01:06:28 -0500, Bill wrote:

Char Jackson wrote:

HTTP is a stateless protocol. Cookies provide the illusion of
statefulness. The web would be very different without cookies.


Yes, we would have more privacy.


We don't know that, but it seems incredibly unlikely that whatever is
cooked up to replace cookies would be more respectful of user privacy.

I'd swap the browser remembering my username for that.


You don't need cookies for that.

How about cookies at the
clients discretion instead of in the form of an "information
grab".


AFAIK, all browsers already allow users to enable/disable cookies, and
have from the beginning.

As you know, you can't even use a number of web sites
without allowing them their use of cookies


Exactly. That's why, if cookies were to disappear for some reason, which
itself is highly unlikely, the functionality they provide would have to
be developed in another way. Would we be better off in the long run? I
don't see how.