@balasubramanium四眼心理医生 @Em0nM4stodonEm The use for cookies was supposed to be things like logins or shopping sessions where there is a need to prevent a 3ed party from taking over the session. Remember this was before https became common in the wake of the Snowden disclosures.

JS was supposed to be for interactive elements such as embedding a playable video, or hashing a passphase to obstruct "rainbow table" precomputed brute-force attacks on accounts.

Instead a very large part of the Internet has become actively malicious, seeking to weaponize browser and computer features against users so their data can be sold.