Must accepting cookies to login to Airvpn.org

[grace 0]

I use latest Firefox and Mac OSX. When I login to airvpn.org website, I must enable "accept cookie from sites" to successfully login, or it fails. However, the webpage does show it does not use cookies to track users. Is it normal, or something wrong in my computer or webpage?

[Staff 9761]

I use latest Firefox and Mac OSX. When I login to airvpn.org website, I must enable "accept cookie from sites" to successfully login, or it fails. However, the webpage does show it does not use cookies to track users. Is it normal, or something wrong in my computer or webpage?

 

Hello,

 

we don't use cookies to track / profile a user, but we do use cookies on the web site. Without cookies no logging based on username and password would be possible and additional features would not be available. It would be a watered down WWW and alternative approaches should be tried.

 

Kind regards

[LZ1 662]

Hello !

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​As the Staff hinted at, you have to understand that there's different kinds of cookies. Most are argueably for tracking, but there's others which let you log in to websites and it's these that Air uses :]. You should note that Air also doesn't use other tracking software that it could use, such as various Google or Facebook systems; instead it keeps it all in-house. Furthermore, they also comply with the European cookie directive, wherein they actually ask you if you accept that cookies are used here. It can be an annoyance, sure, but it shows that they do follow all the rules :]. I recommend that you take a look at various Browser extensions, to add further protection to your browser. Things like uBlock Origin or Privacy Badger.

[Staff 9761]

Hey wait,

 

when one does not use profiling cookies, he/she is not obliged to ask the user for permission to install cookies. But it is good to inform the user that profiling cookies are not used at all.

 

Kind regards