[LINK] web: The cookie is dead. Here's how Facebook, Google, and Apple are tracking you ...

[Rick Welykochy]

Jan Whitaker wrote:
> Essentially the way to avoid is not sign into these services if you can avoid it. They're still using cookies, but they're relying on data mining more it seems.
>
>       http://venturebeat.com/2014/10/06/the-cookie-is-dead-heres-how-facebook-google-and-apple-are-tracking-you-now/


Idiots.

Cookies are indeed used for tracking.
But in the main, first party cookies are used for session management (since
HTTP is a stateless  protocol ... need I repeat myself and many others?)

And if you have third party cookies enabled in your browser, you are indeed
allowing your online web acitivities to be tracked via such cookies and 
only have
yourself to blame.

The announcement of the death of cookies is very premature, and I might 
venture
to add that if cookies evetually do die, some other stateful mechanism 
will have to be
invented to replace them.

Try turning off cookies and doing some banking, as but one example.

cheers
rickw