[thaumasiotes]

That would conflict with normal cookie terminology, where cookies are "set" and packets are "dropped".

But much more importantly, it is completely impossible in the context of the thread:

> [Accusation 3.] On their cookie banner, rejecting took two clicks while accepting took one.

> On 3, Microsoft argued that (a) rejecting was not actually required to be as easy as accepting and that (b) since the default was no cookies and it took a click to get cookies that rejecting was easier than accepting. The CNIL disagreed on both.

[jefftk]

"Dropping cookies" is one of those fun phrases that is commonly used to mean two opposite things.

[thaumasiotes]

But it can only mean one thing here, because it is labeled as the thing Microsoft was doing, and we know what Microsoft was doing.