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by pritambaral 1058 days ago
> could force a redirect under specific circumstances to a site under google.com, and if they're using the browser engine for the request, they'd get the cookies of that user as soon as they get on the internet

At first, I thought this can't be true because, surely, Google marks its cookies as HTTPS-only, right? So I checked, and turns out about half the cookies google.com has in my browser are not HTTPS-only. In fact, the HTTPS-only cookies it does have seem to be the same set of cookies, just with a '__Secure-' prefix. Similarly, about half (different set) of the cookies JS accessible.