scratchieguy12345678 wrote:

plqaokwsijeduhrfyg wrote:

scratchieguy12345678 wrote:

What if someone exploits cookies for malicious purposes?

Like what exactly?

Gaining login and password data and other information?

How would the cookies have gotten that information? It's literally just storing a string numbers on your computer and automatically using them whenever the project they're from is opened. If you're concerned that that kind of info can be gained in general, the type of cookie mentioned is probably the least of your concerns.

This is a similitude, so we may now witness the beauty of two giant topics being merged together.

To address some criticisms, cookies are a few bytes as they're just strings of text and are standards in web browsers. Scratch already uses cookies to keep you logged in and so that your language is remembered every time you visit the site, and other functions.

bluedragon8633 wrote:

scratchieguy12345678 wrote:

plqaokwsijeduhrfyg wrote:

scratchieguy12345678 wrote:

What if someone exploits cookies for malicious purposes?

Like what exactly?

Gaining login and password data and other information?

How would the cookies have gotten that information? It's literally just storing a string numbers on your computer and automatically using them whenever the project they're from is opened. If you're concerned that that kind of info can be gained in general, the type of cookie mentioned is probably the least of your concerns.

Oh wait nevermind, I thought it was able to edit and read other cookies. If all it does is save characters on your computer than support!

fdreerf wrote:

This is a similitude, so we may now witness the beauty of two giant topics being merged together.

To address some criticisms, cookies are a few bytes as they're just strings of text and are standards in web browsers. Scratch already uses cookies to keep you logged in and so that your language is remembered every time you visit the site, and other functions.

The topic you reference (User Variables and User Lists) is attempting to address similar functionality - but it is more general in that it does not specify what the storage mechanism would be - unlike this topic, which is discussing cookies. I think it would be better to leave the storage mechanism up to the developers and focus on function, not implementation. So I recommend using the other topic. I will not be merging the topics to avoid confusion.