Double Fine does away with cookies on their official website

[u/F0REM4N]

https://www.doublefine.com/about/cookies

[u/Black_RL]

Doublefine.com does not use cookies for any purpose at all, and we think more websites should be that way too!

Amen to that!

[u/OrganicKeynesianBean → u/Black_RL]

Keebler: 😦

[u/klipseracer → u/Black_RL]

I think as things like passkeys rollout more and the barrier to "re-login" to a website get easier while remaining secure, we will see cookies replaced with sessions more frequently. A cookie is often just a convenience but that convenience bypasses things like 2 factor authentication. A session stores info on server side, and requires logging in more regularly, but doesn't pose the same risks from a security standpoint... Nor does it need to follow you around from site to site dragging your analytical and marketable value around.

[u/ArchDucky]

Did Santa eat them all?

[u/F0REM4N → u/ArchDucky]

Word is Santa trains for delivering presents by playing Sneak King during the off-season.

[u/BoBoBearDev]

I don't understand why many websites uses cookies especially there is no login or store.

[u/ShakeItLikeIDo → u/BoBoBearDev]

For ads, no?

[u/Ukumio → u/ShakeItLikeIDo]

Some for ads, absolutely but the other major reason is for analytics.

Microsoft have a service (called Clarity) that uses cookies to record (anonymously) a user's session for the Webmaster to use for stuff like heat maps and click maps that show site makers how visitors use their site to help improve user experience.

For example, it's useful to know that 20% of users are clicking on the article image rather than article header to navigate to the article so that the site developer to make the image clickable as well (very basic example, but indicates what I mean).

[u/Siberwulf → u/Ukumio]

This. And A/B/n testing and personalized content. The goal is to drive engagement and sales (assuming the site has acquisition-based goals)

[u/BoBoBearDev → u/ShakeItLikeIDo]

Maybe, but I don't know how that works.

[u/Bunionsauce420]

Feels so smooth on mobile compared to a lot of sites these days. Not sure if it the cookies or if its that it has zero ads.

[u/TheDarkPassnger]

For all the talk about cookies, they should put a cookie recipe too.

[u/sicsche]

It's a nice marketing gag, truth is that everybody is going to get rid off Cookies next year because Google is killing them in Chrome for something different.

[u/SpiralGray → u/sicsche]

This sounded weird to me. All the searching I did seems to indicate that Chrome is killing third-party cookies.

Can you provide a reference that's says it's all cookies? That just seems hugely problematic for, well, almost every web site.

[u/joerice1979 → u/SpiralGray]

Yes, website logins would be a bit of a show stopper without first party cookies, not sure any other technology can touch them for that, aside from lots of logins or aggressive password managers.

I guess if there is no need for logins on a site and no preferences to save, a cookie free site is workable.

[u/sicsche → u/joerice1979]

Yeah that tech exists, Google json auth or local storage. The later basically functions similar to your cookies, but is managed by your browser.

[u/joerice1979 → u/sicsche]

Aha, good show.

Cookies have had cryptographically secure children, seems quite sensible.

[u/sicsche → u/SpiralGray]

If you no longer use third party cookies, there is little reason to keep them at all. There are alternatives for stuff you are doing with them, so if you clean up get completely rid of the old tech.

[u/SpiralGray → u/sicsche]

That doesn't answer my question, but regardless, Google can't basically demand that every company on earth rebuild their web sites and right now there are probably hundreds of thousands of sites that use them.

Source: retired software architect with 37 years experience

[u/-PandemicBoredom- → u/sicsche]

Anything Google is going to do would be far worse for your data.

[u/gladrock → u/sicsche]

They cancelled that idea. Cookies are here to stay 🍪🍪🍪

[u/Casey_jones291422 → u/sicsche]

It's not really a marketing gag. They just have no use for logins and such, it's just content pages with no reason to keep user information (other than the usual marketing jazz)

[u/SQUIDWARD360]

Slow news day

[u/shinikahn]

I fucking love these guys. Tim Schafer is a legend.

[u/imitzFinn]

Ok but what kind of cookies are we talking about here ? (Joking btw I know what kind DoubleFine are talking about here but still)

[u/secretsaucebear]

Fucking love it