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evercookie

noun

Etymology

From ever + cookie.

  1. derived from *kōkô✻
  2. borrowed from koekie
  3. compounded as evercookie — “ever + cookie”

Definitions

  1. A special kind of HTTP cookie that is especially resistant to deletion by the user.

    • A breed of cookie known as evercookie writes data to multiple locations to make it next to impossible ever to remove it completely (http://samy.pl/evercookie/).

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for evercookie. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA