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Good cookies and bad cookies

Cookies (those things website place into your browser; they show up in the section labelled "cookies") can be used for many things, so I have heard, but good cookies are used to stay logged in on websites where you want to stay logged in.

When a website offers to keep you logged in and you choose to stay in for a specified time, say forever, then there are cookies at work. Good cookies obey your choice.

Good cookies keep you logged in across browser restarts and computer restarts, internet disconnections etc. These are really precious cookies. They are to be cherished. This site's cookies behave like this.

Vivaldi.net's cookies are nasty. The site throws me out even during the same browser session despite me having chosen "forever" at login. This is independent from the browser I use, Presto, Gecko, or Webkit. Anybody else having the same issue? Is this due to some disconnect between the cookie and how the website treats it (because it cannot be due to how the browser treats the cookie)? 

Re: Good cookies and bad cookies

Reply #1 –
Quote from: ersi on
Anybody else having the same issue?

Yes and it's been reported on their forum on a few occasions e.g. Would you like us to remember you?
They have come up with no solution for it as yet.
The start and end to every story is the same. But what comes in between you have yourself to blame.

Re: Good cookies and bad cookies

Reply #2 –
It probably has something to do with gluing together various originally unconnected systems. But yes, it's annoying. I have to relogin every time I visit Vivaldi.

Re: Good cookies and bad cookies

Reply #3 –
New invention on the cookie popup front:
- Accept
- Reject and Pay (!)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yy_bZhKAUgc

Obviously this is illegal, because payment entails identification. But when has "illegal" ever stopped any website?

It's in fact the EU that insists on illegal: Thou shalt have cookie popups always all the time everywhere, so that you have no other instinct but to click something whatever that gets rid of the popup as fast as possible. The EU is ruled by two kinds of people: Morons and the criminally insane.

I miss the good old days when browsers had adequate cookie facilities, so cookie management could be done before visiting the website. And cookie popups only told you to enable cookies when you tried to log in but cookies were turned off. Often even this (trying to log in with cookies off) did not give you any notification, so you had to wonder for a while.

If the EU were sane and competent, they would have made internal cookie management a requirement also in the "apps" we have on Android — you know the apps that simply give you the same thing as the website, but you cannot browse any other website with it.