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by sowbug 2943 days ago
Your example is not the same as the one in the comment you replied to. You picked a product hostname. The example was an infrastructure hostname.

The point is that Google (or any company with the same mindset) scopes down the number of machines that can receive your google.com cookie. Even their own machines often don't need it to do their job, so it's not worth the security risk to have your cookie sent more than necessary.