[skydhash]

Maligned usage is what they’re doing. Cookies is good for storing state as HTTP is stateless. Bu if you storing some marker so you can track me around the web, it’s in bad faith. Just like a program can use 4 GB of RAM if that’s needed but something that is just greedily taking memory is what we call a malware.

[jasonlotito]

This can be solved in the browsers while still keeping cookies. And it's not the sites forcing this, it's the browsers allowing this.