🆚 Cookies vs. CSP

Cookies are small pieces of data that a website stores in a visitor's web browser to preserve information between page requests and browsing sessions.

They are commonly used for user authentication, shopping carts, language and theme preferences, analytics, advertising personalization, and session tracking across websites and web applications.

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The Content-Security-Policy (CSP) HTTP response header and HTML meta tag define which external websites a web page can load content from.

They help prevent attacks such as cross-site scripting (XSS) and data injection by blocking content from untrusted sources.

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

• 🥇 Most popular in China in the Networking category.
• 🥇 Most popular in the British Virgin Islands in the Networking category.
• 🥇 Most popular in Seychelles in the Networking category.
• 🥇 Most popular in the U.S. Virgin Islands in the Networking category.
• 🥇 Most popular in Guernsey in the Networking category.

• 🥉 Third most popular in Brunei Darussalam in the Networking category.
• ⭐ 4th most popular in India in the Networking category.
• ⭐ 4th most popular in Pakistan in the Networking category.
• ⭐ 4th most popular in Lithuania in the Networking category.
• ⭐ 5th most popular in France in the Networking category.

Top sites

Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.

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• CSP vs. TLS
• CSP vs. HTTP 2+
• CSP vs. HSTS
• CSP vs. ♯ ETag
• CSP vs. ↪ Redirect

• Cookies technology profile
• IETF company profile

• CSP technology profile
• W3C company profile