Comments by "kxmode" (@kxmode) on "Washington Post"
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@sarahwbs That's what cookies do. Generally speaking, cookies are benign.
However, what you're confusing are the QOL cookies (like those that save your logged in state, so you don't have to login every time a page loads, or those that save items in your cart) that are entirely harmless with the tracker cookies that follow you around the Internet. The original purpose behind Google's global tracker was QOL single sign-on stuff so that when you logged into one of Google's products (like Gmail), you logged into all (e.g., Youtube, Google+, Drive, Google's Office Suite, and so forth). Where Google went wrong is they took this awesome cookie tech and polymorphed it into a profile tracker for Google's marketing platform. It's not unlike what Facebook did with users data for their marketing platform.
There's a reckoning coming for Google, and they know it. But they don't appear to be concerned with it now.
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