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Comment by Teandw | Hacker News Reader

You don't understand how valuable data is to companies like Meta etc.

Things like Giphy are amazing data builders. Think of all the cookies that get placed around the web for FB to use, when a giphy is embeded on a website.

Even the types of Giphy's people use, are useful data points.

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  curl -v https://media.giphy.com/media/bKgCINrtZWQ39wZCxU/giphy-downsized-large.gif 2>&1 | grep set-cookie | wc -l
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s/cookie/ip data and referrer tracking/.

sure, but this does not prove anything.

besides who would want to give a cookie to curl UA?

Now try loading it in a browser like everyone else. You will find cookies for giphy.com and cookies.giphy.com. Please stop spreading misinformation.

User agents aren't a thing?

  curl -s https://cookies.giphy.com/global-cookies.f54c0b98fd75c8afe8abb8e12bf0d8a9297f480a.html |less

I opened this URL in my browser, and I was offered a `didomi_token` cookie that assigned me a user_id of 17d72dbe-d667-610e-ba58-323f0a33f7b1. When viewed in a browser as opposed to cURL it's actually a HTML page containing, among other things, the actual gif image hosted at https://i.giphy.com/media/bKgCINrtZWQ39wZCxU/giphy-downsized... (this one comes without cookies).

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