Talk:HTTP cookie

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This article is substantially duplicated by a piece in an external publication. Please do not flag this article as a copyright violation of the following source:

Surhone, L. M., Timpledon, M. T., & Marseken, S. F. (2010), Online advertising: World Wide Web, interactive advertising, HTTP cookie, Betascript PublishingCS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) Click the "show" link above for further details.
OCLC 709610692, ISBN 9786132026712.

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The contents of the Cookiejacking page were merged into HTTP cookie on February 2019. For the contribution history and old versions of the redirected page, please see its history; for the discussion at that location, see its talk page.

Semi-protected edit request on 26 October 2020Edit

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I want to edit. 96.232.83.69 (talk) 12:26, 26 October 2020 (UTC)

You can request specific changes here on this talk page on the form "Please change X to Y", citing reliable sources. – Thjarkur (talk) 12:36, 26 October 2020 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 31 January 2021Edit

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2601:586:500:8800:9C45:87FE:372A:9811 (talk) 02:51, 31 January 2021 (UTC)

Not done: it's not clear what changes you want to be made. Please mention the specific changes in a "change X to Y" format and provide a reliable source if appropriate. Pupsterlove02 talk • contribs 03:59, 31 January 2021 (UTC)

"Alternatives to cookies" should be split out into a separate articleEdit

The section "Alternatives to cookies" list various identifiers and cache records stored by the client (and metadata like IP). These things can be used for tracking (one application of cookies), but they don't actually substitute cookies in general. Also, this list is missing a few entries, like:

- favicon cache:

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2021/02/new-browser-tracking-hack-works-even-when-you-flush-caches-or-go-incognito/

- HSTS tracking, see

https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2015/02/02/anatomy-of-a-browser-dilemma-how-hsts-supercookies-make-you-choose-between-privacy-or-security/

https://webkit.org/blog/8146/protecting-against-hsts-abuse/

- redirect tracking, see

https://digiday.com/marketing/wtf-what-is-redirect-tracking/

Also see: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Firefox/Privacy/Redirect_tracking_protection#what_data_is_cleared

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Change "For obvious security reasons" to "For security reasons" in the Domain and path subsection, as the "obvious" is unhelpfully exclusionary Wlycdgr (talk) 16:09, 24 March 2021 (UTC)

Done EN-Jungwon 16:18, 24 March 2021 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 24 March 2021 (2)Edit

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Update third party cookie discussion to reflect recent developments: Firefox now blocks third party cookies by default^[1], and the Chrome team has announced plans to do so by 2022^[2] Wlycdgr (talk) 16:26, 24 March 2021 (UTC)

Already done - these claims already appear in the article. Thank you! A S U K I T E 19:54, 24 March 2021 (UTC)

[1] ttps://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2019/09/03/todays-firefox-blocks-third-party-tracking-cookies-and-cryptomining-by-default/

[2] ttps://blog.chromium.org/2020/01/building-more-private-web-path-towards.html

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