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Posted October 26, 2016
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lazydog: 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.
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classicgogger: Actually, fingerprinting your Browser is the "new" thing. Disabling your cookies won't help you in the long run.
Yup, and there's also the so-called "evercookie".
Posted October 26, 2016
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lazydog: Cookies can be tracked
I'm all for "keeping it clean" by not storing cookies, history, searches, etc. permanently.

But this needs a bit of a clarification:

gog.com can track cookies set by gog.com when you visit gog.com.

In general, random sites can't track cookies set by other random sites.
Post edited October 26, 2016 by clarry
Posted October 26, 2016
Oh great now I need the VoidComp test

You should have said earlier :)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Umc9ezAyJv0
Posted October 26, 2016
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TarotRedHand: The reason I did this was for security as I don't want to be tracked all the time especially over several browser sessions.
At first I had the exact same concern. I did end up using it in the end, as I've configured my browser to clear all the cookies on exit (as before) EXCEPT the ones it gets from https://login.gog.com (that's where the 2 step auth cookie comes from, along with a couple of others that seem pretty harmless).

P.S. You can do this in Firefox without any addons whatsoever.
Post edited October 26, 2016 by WinterSnowfall
Posted October 26, 2016
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TarotRedHand: The reason I did this was for security as I don't want to be tracked all the time especially over several browser sessions.
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WinterSnowfall: At first I had the exact same concern. I did end up using it in the end, as I've configured my browser to clear all the cookies on exit (as before) EXCEPT the ones it gets from https://login.gog.com (that's where the 2 step auth cookie comes from, along with a couple of others that seem pretty harmless).

P.S. You can do this in Firefox without any addons whatsoever.
is this the test now :)
Posted October 27, 2016
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clarry: gog.com can track cookies set by gog.com when you visit gog.com.

In general, random sites can't track cookies set by other random sites.
Yup. The only real way in which cookies can be used to actually track you is via stuff like openauth.

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lazydog: I appreciate the detailed response. But I am not convinced.
I'm not trying to convince you, if you're willing to trade account security for not having cookies, then that's entirely your own call to make. Worst case scenario somebody hijacks your account and you have to contact support, not like that's the end of the world.
Post edited October 27, 2016 by Fenixp
Posted October 27, 2016
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WinterSnowfall: ... At first I had the exact same concern. I did end up using it in the end, as I've configured my browser to clear all the cookies on exit (as before) EXCEPT the ones it gets from https://login.gog.com (that's where the 2 step auth cookie comes from, along with a couple of others that seem pretty harmless).

P.S. You can do this in Firefox without any addons whatsoever.
That might even be a reasonable general strategy. Configure Firefox so that all cookies get deleted upon exit, then observe which sites require you to login frequently or forget other stuff, then whitelist those sites that you trust. That should give a good balance between security and convenience.
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