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Cooking != Tracking?

That's historically been a very prominent purpose of cookies.

Sure it's not exclusively tracking, but it's nonsense to make the assertion that "Cookies != Tracking"

Cookies serve a lot of valuable purposes, it's important to disambiguate.

Sure. But given the lack of specificity from the person I was responding to, it felt important to correct.

Sure it's not exclusively tracking, but it's nonsense to make the assertion that "Cookies != Tracking"

They're not primarily for tracking either.