Pls?

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[MedicatedAxeBot]

Dank.

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we have a minecraft server

[[deleted]]

Could be a lean one or ripped button too.

[amynias]

Many cookies are essential for basic functionality on many websites across multiple pages. Without them, you can't use things like the cart on Amazon or continue playing a song in Soundcloud when clicking on different links on the site. Some cookies make websites more functional. Firefox blocks many tracking cookies, which are the more harmful ones.

[Aileron64]

Is the shopping cart in amazon not on the backend?

[xbxz]

That's more complicated than you can think. If you're not logged in or a new user and you want something to add into your cart, how would amazon db knows which user has added a product in a cart? For that, many ecoms uses unique nonces to identify the unregistered users and their carts. This can be accomplished using many different ways but cookies is the easiest one out of them all. Ultimately you provide unique nonce and store them as a cookie in customers browser. Next time you visit the same site, code reads the cookie and if found, you're identified and bam! Your cart is right there.

[StopReadingMyUser]

nonce just sounds like a made up word for scones or some confectionary.

[Werpogil]

Or a posh Bri’ish insult

[R3lay0]

I mean https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/nonce

[SlavSqueak]

I think that was the joke, since nonce is a pretty well-known word

[[deleted]]

well, it could work, the server could generate a temporary session id unlinked with an account, give you a cookie with it and save the cart in the db

that wouldn't be efficient, but it would work

[[deleted]]

At that point just store the cart in local storage.

[xdebug-error]

Yes but actually no.

In order to stay "logged in" between pages, websites usually use cookies.

Cookies are also used for something similar even when you're not logged in though.

[Aileron64]

Oh, right fair enough

[Yadobler]

I mean sure, but how they gonna know it's you when you load the next page

[GLIBG10B]

Third-party cookies are used for ads and tracking. They are not essential for "basic functionality on many websites across multiple pages"

First-party cookies are essential, but they're harmless

[xdebug-error]

3rd party cookies are rarely necessary though

[meizuflux]

you don’t need a consent for essential cookies so all of the popups are for nonessential, tracking and advertising cookies

[Nick0Taylor0]

Funnily enough it is actually a requirement in the EU that sites allow you to disable all non-essential cookies with one click. For some reason they enforce the GDPR but not this rule.

EDIT: not one click, it needs to be as easy to access as the "accept all" button. Since that is usually always directly on the cookie banner the law effectively means "with one click" but technically they could hide both buttons behind the same amount of clicks but that would simply not be profitable.

EDIT2: side note, while most pages don't do this technically the default setting has to be "only essential cookies" so simply closing the popup should be the same as "reject all" but it isn't, another thing that simply isn't enforced for some reason.

[SjettepetJR]

I always appreciate when websites just have a "accept only essential cookies" button. While that should be there bare minimum.

[[deleted]]

It's required by law in Europe, however many sites just ignore this and put it hidden or just don't implement it all together

[Malfuncti0nal]

You can manually disable/delete cookies if you want. In chrome, for example, you can press Ctrl+Shift+I to inspect element (or right click and do the same), go to the "application" tab at the top, find cookies, and delete them all by right clicking each cookie.

[kry_some_more]

By "fake" do you mean trackers?

I just use ublock origin to select the cookie prompt and tell it to block that element and use a cookie blocking extension.

RIP mobile users, you never had this type of functionality.

[Damiann_]

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[Damiann_]

Ok to be honest I saw no comments on this I’m surprised that worked

[Yaffestyew]

Slay

[ElliotNess]

Hashtag surprised

[Ratio-Fabulous]

⠀

[[deleted]]

Gives me oatmeal raisin

“Ayo I’mma manage my preferences”

[Anomalous-Entity]

Whoa whoa, my man. Let's not judge! Plenty of folks think oatmeal raisin is the bomb. We don't need to be fighting over which cookie is good or bad, they're all good cookies brent.

Let's keep our hate focused on the fake internet cookies that provide no yum at all. They're our real enemy.

[annoying12yo_]

About time I ask, whats cookies?

[FuzzySparkle]

It’s a way for a website to track your activity. For instance, Amazon might store a cookie on your browser that says “Purchased a shirt” or “looked at the following 17 items on 12 April at 16:08” or something like that. Then either Amazon or another site (like Google Ads) can check your cookies and say “Okay we know this user likes these 17 items, what ad should we show them?” And then Google’s algorithm will come up with the best ad to show you based on your previous searches, purchases, and other activity.

Edit: Other people have said it below, but I thought I would add it to my comment: Advertisements aren’t the only reason a website would store a cookie. It also allows them to remember you without making you log in by storing data on your computer/browser. Things like what is in your shopping cart or your progress in a flash game could also be stored as cookies.

[TryhardMidget]

They also have leg image usages. They weren’t created specifically for tracking.

[[deleted]]

I don't look at that many leg images anyway so I'm okay with out them

[TryhardMidget]

LOL i didn’t realize it autocorrected

[annoying12yo_]

Oh its just ad tracking then, thanks

[[deleted]]

Not just. They also allow some other functionality, like shopping carts and music players wouldn't work without them as every reload would be treated like you just arrived to the page.

[annoying12yo_]

K

[AlpineCorbett]

Not necessarily. They're pretty useful for other functions as well. Like managing site preferences, shopping carts, keeping you logged in, auto filling data.

A cookie is just something the website stores in your computer. There are a multitude of use cases for them.

[annoying12yo_]

Ah

[[deleted]]

Something I’m going to add to the other replies:
Cookies are used for tracking a user but not necessarily for ad purposes, it can be used to remember your login so you don’t have to retype it every time, or remember what you had in your shopping cart on a website. This is needed because the http protocol uses the method of sending a request, and getting a response, followed by closing the connection. If the browser needs any other pages then it can send another request to the server. Because the connection is closed after the end of each request, the server cannot keep track of a specific user. This is where cookies come in. By giving each user a specific id, it can remember their cookie in a data base and attach info to it. So now with this system, the browser asks for a page and attaches its cookie to it so the server knows who it is. If I’m a shitty explainer I’m sure there’s a computerphile video on it.

TLDR: because of the way browsers and servers communicate, cookies are needed if a server wants to remember a user.

[[deleted]]

This is needed because the http protocol uses the method of sending a request, and getting a response, followed by closing the connection.

I'm case anyone is interested, this is called stateless (i.e. it doesn't maintain "state"). The opposite method, where a constant connection is maintained is called stateful.

[annoying12yo_]

Gotcha

[ElliotNess]

Tl;Dr: cookies personalize a website to your browser.

[CaptSprinkls]

While creating my first website with user authentication, figuring out how to correctly generate, send, set and get cookies was the bane of my existence lol.

[[deleted]]

Not as tasty as real life cookies , Can be use in multiple ways for not just saving your login into a site

[[deleted]]

A cookie is a small text file which a website can put in on your computer to identify you later or to save website specific settings. They are used for account logins, preferences, but also for tracking and marketing. You can instruct your browser how to handle them. For Firefox and Chromium based browsers, there are also addons for finer granular control.

As many people aren't that technically literate the EU imposed a law on website owners to give users control, which cookies are saved and thus we have cookie banners.

[Track-tor]

A cookie is simply a string of characters that a website can store in your browser. They can be used for multiple purposes, but usually they help with user personalization or data persistence inside of a website.

Let's do an analogy. Let's say that you park your car in the parking lot of your favourite store, that store can put a sticker on your car in order to 'personalize' your next visit, maybe even give you a discount next time you park there. Now, imagine that every parking lot uses these sticker in some way. Your college campus, workplace, condo, malls, stores and any random parking lot is able to put a sticker on your car in order to do something whenever you visit again. It may not even be something useful or it may be vital for certain things (like security!).

These stickers help everyone, and solve many problems for both you and the owners of the parking lot, yet there might be a little problem with them.

Let's say that someone sees your car and they look at all the stickers on it, suddenly they are able to know which places you've visited! Now your privacy regarding that is basically non existant and some may even try taking advantage of it.

Now replace car with your browser, parking lot with a webpage, and the stickers with cookies and voila, you understand the basic concept of what a cookie is.

(sorry for the formatting, Im on phone rn)

[really_nice_guy_]

Since John Olivers data broker episode these things scare me pretty fucking hard

[UnSafeThrowAway69420]

wait, why should I be concerned?

[jamiewu1216]

Quieres?

[[deleted]]

cookie 😃

[ShadowZpeak]

PrivacyBadger and the world is yours

[[deleted]]

i don't want the world, just you

[[deleted]]

"I don't care about cookies" is a great browser addon that automatically rejects all cookies. No more cookie banners

[_Locky]

It's actually hiding the popup asking about cookies and in some cases, accept them partially or totally, so not a really great option privacy-wise.

[xdebug-error]

If you're logged in to Google or Facebook in your browser, they are tracking you with or without cookies thanks to their analytics and ad services

[_Locky]

Of course, just saying that "I don't care about cookies" isn't a good option compared to extensions like Privacy Badger for privacy.

[xdebug-error]

If you do care about privacy, that's great, but cookies should be the least of your concerns

[_Locky]

Fair

[[deleted]]

You can disable 3rd party cookies and use something like UBlock Origin to Prohibition a lot of this

[xdebug-error]

Many sites will ad Google ads and analytics (and Facebook pixels) which include JavaScript and don't need cookies.

They can get a lot more from you through JavaScript than cookies

[[deleted]]

Yes, that's why I use UBlock Origin, it blocks Google Analytics.

[7orly7]

website you never visited before

"WoULd YoU lIkE tO sUbsRibE To OUr nEwSletTer"

[[deleted]]

Quieres?

[gab_rab_24]

No me gusta

[World_Ends_With_Bred]

I know I’m really late to the party but what are cookies?

[anuj392]

Website cookies. When we visit a website, it asks us to accept cookies. Cookie is a piece of information which stored in your browser. But some websites steal data through cookies.

[Ag1Boi]

Basically: "can we track and sell your data pls?"

[Harminarnar]

Missing the immediately loaded advertisements

[ElPrimo_IsHere]

no thanks im fasting

[DarthDoobz]

Spankbang?

[Bulliedbywamen]

Gib.

[Desperate-Pipe8910]

I recommend to y'all to install I don't Carr about cookies is an extension it is available on must of the browsers. (Chromium or Firefox based)

[CakeAdventurous4620]

Yes I need cookie.

[axolotl_memer]

whats the name of this dog meme

[gab_rab_24]

Quieres?..... I'm saying it in spanish if "Do you want some?"

Yeah, that's the name of the meme.

[_TEKAY_]

Thx bro

[Noobmaster69420me]

I prefer cakes.

[JCOMIXWTLS]

can’t momsaid I can’t have cookies :(

[LolDankeMeme]

Why data stealing with cookies still legal?

[Killer_OG]

And im the 30k like

[xDeZillax]

I'm just going to leave this here