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Accepting Cookies (thelemmy.club)
submitted 3 months ago by to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev
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cross-posted from: https://suppo.fi/post/12337562

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[–] 2 points 3 months ago (1 child)

Is that needed if ublock already stops all the tracking scripts from loading?

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  • [–] 22 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    Yes. Because cookies are used for tracking and can be set without the aid of Javascript.

    For anyone interested, cookies pre-date Javascript and are baked in the HTTP protocol by way of a Set-Cookie header that the browser responds to by storing whatever information accompanies the Set-Cookie header; usually a unique id that can then be used to track what pages on a domain you visit.

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  • [–] 6 points 3 months ago* (1 child)

    uMatrix once again to the rescue. It can block cookies. The only downside to uMatrix is that it dis-/allows based on su domain, so you can't accept a log-in cookie and reject the tracking cookie, if they are served by the same subdomain.

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