How the cookie poisoned the Web
Doc Searles,
Doc Searls Weblog,
May 17, 2021
Today's a good day for irony in blog posts. In this example we have Doc Searls writing from Harvard blogs saying we should "blame the cookie" for the unequal distribution of power on the internet. "The Web back then was still peer-to-peer and welcoming to individuals who wished to operate at full agency. It even stayed that way through the Age of Blogs in the early '00s. But gradually a poison disabled personal agency. That poison was the cookie." No. Not so. The feudal system that emerged in the form of Google and Facebook an such came to us from places like Stanford and Harvard, and these institutions had one unifying message: let's make money. It wasn't the cookie that destroyed the web, it was the cookie factory.
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