Still, the use of cookies as key elements used to persist client session identifiers in the browser is too widespread and relied upon by prevalent web powerhouses like PHP for Google to do away with them.
Moreover, as much as there may be more modern, sleek alternatives like browser session and application storage, you can’t realistically expect the entire web industry to completely migrate away from cookies just like that.
I’m kind of surprised that third party cookies could entirely be phased out. Which, if they were only being used for tracking and advertising, good riddance.
Don’t services like Microsoft still like to throw around cookies between multiple domains, though? At least, at one point I thought they did.
They definitely used to, but haven’t for a long time. It’s been viewed as an unreliable and poor practice, especially with browsers like Safari and Firefox which have already disabled 3rd Party Cookies for some time now (or at least providing the option to, as a privacy feature).
Now CORS, OAUTH, and similar mechanisms do a better, more private, and more secure job of sharing state and authentication across domains and groups of services.
The amount of tech relying on cookies is slowly disappearing. Removing cookie support completely today is not an option, but it will be in the future.
qisope@lemmy.world 10 months ago
and if you’re working on a site with a ton of subdomains, sharing the local/session storage data between them is a pain when compared with cookies.