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Accepting Cookies (thelemmy.club)
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cross-posted from: https://suppo.fi/post/12337562

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[-] dohpaz42@lemmy.world 11 points 3 hours ago

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.

[-] Quacksalber@sh.itjust.works 5 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

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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