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		corytheboyd on Dec 17, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: No Cookie for You That was an unexpected nice gesture. I wonder what they’re using to track user activity instead, probably just a mix of server logs and the other goings on of the backend.

adamparsons on Dec 17, 2020 [–]

Your user session. It can even be a cookie still, because that session cookie will be required for it to work.

corytheboyd on Dec 17, 2020 | [–]

Right, I meant to imply that the user session is used by “backend goings on”, and I understand that that is stored in a cookie still

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