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by sintaxi 3672 days ago
Yep, CSRF is a completely opt-in problem to have. There is pretty much zero (valid) reasons to need Cookies anymore. Although I agree this spec is an improvement. Its main purpose should be to make legacy systems more secure. The best course of action would be to avoid cookies entirely.
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What are you proposing to replace cookies with? Auth tokens and XHR? Localstorage? Why?