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by krferriter 1255 days ago
You can make an http web browser not store any cookies. This may limit the operation of some existing sites that rely on cookies though because they can't maintain client side session information or other state. Tracking cookies are not inherent to http. http is just the content transfer protocol. I feel like campaigning against tracking cookies within http, and advocating for http browsers to have more stringent handling of 3rd party cookies (like what Firefox offers, but maybe even more) is more likely to get wider adoption than coming up with a complete replacement for http.