Comment by londons_explore
2 days ago
I would prefer a 999 year login cookie.
A well designed browser stores the cookies with similar security to the built in password manager anyway
2 days ago
I would prefer a 999 year login cookie.
A well designed browser stores the cookies with similar security to the built in password manager anyway
That's not true, you need to provide a password to read the passwords saved in the browser whereas cookies can be read without any hassle from the developer tools
Cookies can also be queried programmatically, whereas passwords need to have the users auto fill active and interact with the input element
Most extensions have effectively full access to your cookies, not to your passwords - which is a real attack vector (session exfiltration) which is actively being used by had acteues
There are ofc server set cookies which are not programmatically queryable, but that's not the norm (and they're still visible via the developer tools, so the core statement remains untrue)
> Cookies can also be queried programmatically,
Misleading statement, essentially untrue.
> Most extensions have effectively full access to your cookies
False.
> There are ofc server set cookies which are not programmatically queryable, but that's not the norm
That is the norm for login cookies.
> and they're still visible via the developer tools,
This is irrelevant to the argument.
I’m quite sure that server set cookies are the norm for authentication, at least where they are set from the server side.