Title of the post is not right, the author issued a (technically important) correction[1]:
> Brief correction: Cookies seem to get removed and re-created immediately. At least the cookie content and creation date seems to change. Nonetheless: After hitting the "remove all" button you still don't end up with an empty cookie jar.
I've used YAML for years, and yeah, there's a lot of warts, but I love it for small(ish) manually edited configuration files.
I generally keep it simple and it works.
The GDPR explicitly does not set out to specify implementation details because of the reasons here: https://gdpr-info.eu/recitals/no-15/ (Technology neutrality)
The latter. I don't have specific examples in mind, just that if you do not trust a company's data collection policies, the collection capabilities of an installed program are much greater than when viewed through a web browser. See [1] for an example from a few of years ago.