I took the Dalai Lama approach, I had one with everything.

Heard it, but still a great joke. :P

Give me one good reason why I should turn off cookie cleaning to accommodate someone else and I might think about it.

Piss off!

I see the fallout of the breaking "man turns an optional feature off" story continues.

I wonder... Depending on the browser you're using, I recall there being a good cookie manager (FF v25 I know it works), which lets you set defaults for keeping/removing cookies for sites, and I'd blacklist some sites to be only per-session or never having cookies. Although from the sounds of it, it sounds more like you're in private browsing all the time for it not to keep cookies.

Still if you're going to be without 2-step, make sure it's a strong enough password...

If your account gets compromised it'll be mostly your problem and to a much less extent GOG's.

Good enough reason? If you do it you do it out of self-interest and not for someone else. GOG is probably quite okay with you turning the feature off.

Maybe you should explain what's the problem with the cookies on GOG. They're not in the advertising business, they're also not present on other websites as a 3rd party, so your internet traffic is unknown to them. So what's the problem?

Nah, it will be GOGS problem.

Not good enough. Already turned it off btw.
Maybe you should explain what cookies do and what they can be used for.

I doubt that but your solution is absolutely fine by me. You encountered a problem and solved it. Seems we all got what we wanted.

Storing arbitrary data on your computer. They can't be used to directly attack or launch any code on your computer - they only work as a limited storage space for websites, so that they can remember your activity. They can be used to store just about anything really, but their size is extremely limited. They're most often used to remember logins (if you tick the "remember me" box while logging in somewhere, cookie usually gets created to tell the website that you've done so next time you visit it, or that you have correctly authenticated your computer like it's used on GOG), to remember things like what was the last place you've visited on a website so that it can then start off from that point, or sometimes to remember website settings.

Some websites use cookies to track user and collect usage statistics, often even across many websites - but this is not an issue when you use cookies as an opt-in function, in other words, if you whitelist websites you'd like to allow to use cookies as opposed to allowing all websites to use them.

Wise words Triarion.

But I still felt obliged to point out that the OP has a legitimate complaint.
Data mining, you mean? And I choose when to allow it?

Data Mining implies acquiring large quantities of relevant data, which isolated websites can do (and ... well, do) without making use of cookies in any way. By preventing 99% of websites from making use of your cookies, you ensure that cookies only store small amounts of data, which in turn becomes irrelevant. Making cookies an opt-in feature basically prevents their usage as a tool for data mining.

I appreciate the detailed response. But I am not convinced.

Cookies can be tracked, anything that can make use of that is either benefiting or compromising and the judgement is out on whether or not that is the consumer.

And I am now led to believe it is part of a security measure by GOG.