pet peeve: privacy policies that describe individual cookies as a (text) "file"

every browser stores them in SQLite as far as I'm aware

@eloy Well here it's ram-only :D

@lanodan hehe :D

@eloy I don't think Lynx uses SQLite (but it also doesn't use an individual file per cookie)

@eloy also using “cookies” as an umbrella term for any form of saving data on end user’s device

@eloy SQLite? Also a file.

@ellie But they usually claim "a cookie is a file". A database entry is not a file.

@eloy @ellie if you see SQLite as a file system that makes rows files and therefore cookies in SQLite are files as long as they are rows

@toast @ellie 🧠

@eloy The filesystem under SQLite? Also a database.

(The distinction has mostly melted away.)