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Cookies bisect into useful state for session management and all the other truly awful uses. Unfortunately it's impossible to avoid "the evil bit" problem and you cannot a priori know it's a useful or useless cookie.

QUIC session state has potential but I believe won't end the dependency. If you don't keep state in the browser side and you want either idempotent or portable state outcomes you have to have a three way rendezvous to restore prior state into a new binding.

Tracking is shit but some cookies are purposeful

Just saw the comment - I think it's easy to delineate between 3rd party and 1st party cookies, though I know that this would make is much harder to use a lot of SaaS products like Google Analytics etc.

Is it possible for us to create a tech ecosystem where those 3rd party cookies can be avoided in general?

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