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A better analogy would be that when uninstalling Zoom it looks through all of your emails to find its email. It has no business being there in the first place.


Cookies are just temporary passwords.

It's like Zoom goes through your temp password database to change your saved password for zoom.


Except you are UNinstalling the application? What cause is there to save anything that isn't already there at that point?


I mean, if you had zoom installed on desktop you there's a high likelihood that you will use zoom again. By leaving that cookie, they are making the web experience better the next time you use it.

Then again, planting a 10 year cookie that can only exist when edited outside the browser's sandbox is a helluva effective long term marker for a particular person. Maybe they just want to keep tabs on you. :)




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