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Late July discontinued its $2 million cookie line due to lack of profitability
“We realized that the cookies were never going to be a profitable part of our business. It was two million dollars of our sales, but the right thing to do was to discontinue them.”
García Martínez: Cookie-based website tracking is currently basically meaningless
“If you just jump on a website, it's based on a cookie and that's so transient these days that it's basically meaningless.”
Freckling: Netscape invented cookies in 1994 for state management
“The first unique cookie was invented in 94 by Netscape by a young engineer who was simply trying to allow a browser to remember privately and anonymously remember a user that had signed in or had something in their shopping cart or preferred a certain language…”
Evans: Ad tech built an inverted pyramid of rent-seeking on cookies
“The last 25 years we've built up this sort of inverted pyramid of complexity, rent-seeking, arbitrage, Fraud, privacy, infringement, and god knows what else, on top of a cookie, and now that's kind of going to get turned off.”