Hacker News Reader

people still insist on using a browser built by a company that makes money off of ads and act surprised when said company purposefully compromises their privacy and data on said browser.

> As a hacker, I don't care about cookies

Well I care about privacy. And so should anybody with an ounce of common sense.

What about when the lack of cookies makes everything break and you cannot work around it because it's too much JS to reverse-engineer, and/or it's a copyright-felony in your country to develop workarounds?

"I'll use my l33t hacker skillz to avoid it on my own" is a losing strategy in the long run.

A similar thing happens with the proliferation of cameras and license-plate readers.

You can keep them enabled and clear at end of session. I'm not saying this makes you untrackable; that is a losing strategy due to all the non-cookie tracking, but also the cookie popup isn't helping there.