"Cookies were originally designed to track users across the web on browsers."
No. Cookies were originally designed to temporarily store state information.[1] I would be astonished if any of the designers envisioned in 1997 the persistent cross-site tracking that has become "normal" in the late 2010s.
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"Cookies were originally designed to track users across the web on browsers."
No. Cookies were originally designed to temporarily store state information.[1] I would be astonished if any of the designers envisioned in 1997 the persistent cross-site tracking that has become "normal" in the late 2010s.
[1] See RFC 2109: https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2109.txt