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From: Arno Welzel <usenet@arnowelzel.de>
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Subject: Re: Now that Google is going to remove cookies...
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Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn:

[...]
>      b) For a client-side (usually browser) session or for temporary storage
>         that survives the end of a client-side session (given by the
>         “expires“ value), store all the data in cookies client-side.  The
>         client will transfer all relevant cookies to the server as described
>         in a), but the data can also be exclusively used client-side.
> 
> Cookies can be read and set using the “document.cookie” property, unless 
> they had been set with the “httponly” flag set.
> 
> <https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Document/cookie>

The better way to store information client side only is the web storage:

<https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Web_Storage_API>


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Arno Welzel
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