New ask Hacker News story: YouTube storing cookies before you even give them permission to do so
YouTube storing cookies before you even give them permission to do so
23 by sirfrankiecrisp | 11 comments on Hacker News.
Hello everyone, I am not an expert in all things cookies and session data and all that stuff. But I have recently stumbled upon something that seems quite off... If I visit YouTube I get greeted with the choice to log in or not. If I click "no thanks", I am prompted with a choice of either accepting Google using cookies or leave the website. In theory, my logic says that if I now leave the website, the next time I visit it, I should be greeted again with the same prompt since I have not accepted any cookie being stored. That does not happen. If I then take a look at the Session cookies that were stored, I see a Youtube cookie with the following information stored: CONSENT:"YES+CH.en+V9+BX". I am not sure if this is the consent to them storing cookies or what, but only if I delete this cookies, I get prompted again to log in or accept the terms. Seems kind of weird that they store cookies before you accept them storing cookies... Did I find something here or is it just how it works? Thanks!
23 by sirfrankiecrisp | 11 comments on Hacker News.
Hello everyone, I am not an expert in all things cookies and session data and all that stuff. But I have recently stumbled upon something that seems quite off... If I visit YouTube I get greeted with the choice to log in or not. If I click "no thanks", I am prompted with a choice of either accepting Google using cookies or leave the website. In theory, my logic says that if I now leave the website, the next time I visit it, I should be greeted again with the same prompt since I have not accepted any cookie being stored. That does not happen. If I then take a look at the Session cookies that were stored, I see a Youtube cookie with the following information stored: CONSENT:"YES+CH.en+V9+BX". I am not sure if this is the consent to them storing cookies or what, but only if I delete this cookies, I get prompted again to log in or accept the terms. Seems kind of weird that they store cookies before you accept them storing cookies... Did I find something here or is it just how it works? Thanks!
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