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by phkamp 5079 days ago
Uhm, isn't that how it works today ? Do you care about how many metric shitloads of storage your cookies take up on client's disks ? Shouldn't you ?

Putting the cost of storage where the decision to store is made is sound economic practics.
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comex 5079 days ago
My Cookies directory is 11 MB. That's actually quite a lot, considering the length of the average cookie, but my disk is 256 GB and it's only gotten that big because I've been browsing for years literally without ever clearing my cookies and I can clear them at any time.

This is really a non-issue.

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papsosouid 5079 days ago
It is the user's session data. If it is stored on their end, they can choose how long they wish to store it for, and delete it any time they like.
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