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by padjo 18 days ago
> So the boring 2005 design wins.

As an old guy reading this I had a lot of wtf moments during the setup. Then I laughed pretty hard when we eventually got to this line. Like there's a reason we invented cookies and all mature web frameworks use them for auth.

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> Like there's a reason we invented cookies and all mature web frameworks use them for auth.

Cookie stealers, issues with third-party cookies and tracking... it's not like the past was a paradise, in fact, quite the opposite. Hell I 'member times when we had to append ?PHPSESSID=... to URLs. Cookies were a stopgap...