For example, couldn’t I give my visitor a cookie like MySpammySiteLoginStatus=logged-out and then anyone can see they visited MySpammySite? Additionally, couldn’t I hide other information in relatively simple codes, like deciding whether or not to add toolbar preference cookies based on whether or not the user got to the shopping cart?
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You’re sort of asking two different questions, so let me break it down.
Technically speaking, you absolutely could do this.
Should you? No.
All these files are visible to anyone that knows where to look. There are organizations that spend tons of time and resources categorizing cookies and what they do (because this helps other companies group those cookies into the categories required by GDPR and CCPA and other laws). At some point, somebody will notice what you’re doing and that is unlikely to go well for you.
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