Firefox 120.0 released

Posted Nov 23, 2023 16:02 UTC (Thu) by anselm (subscriber, #2796)
In reply to: Firefox 120.0 released by epa
Parent article: Firefox 120.0 released

Even LWN sins in this regard. The login is done using cookies.

A session cookie from the server you're actively logged into isn't a huge problem. It solves the problem of HTTP itself being a stateless protocol with no memory from one request to the next, which HTTP authentication (being part of the stateless protocol) isn't really set up to tackle.

What's annoying is “third-party” cookies from other (advertising) servers which let those servers track you across the various sites you visit.