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A meme is an idea, behavior, or style that spreads by means of imitation from person to person within a culture and often carries symbolic meaning representing a particular phenomenon or theme.

An Internet meme or meme, is a cultural item that is spread via the Internet, often through social media platforms. The name is by the concept of memes proposed by Richard Dawkins in 1972. Internet memes can take various forms, such as images, videos, GIFs, and various other viral sensations.


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[–] primrosepathspeedrun@anarchist.nexus 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

That fixes local logs. Like for your partner seeing your porn in browser history on a shared computer, or 'cis woman fucks trans woman with massive xenomorph forehead strap-on' to not auto complete in front of your boss when typing in a search.

[–] EtherWhack@lemmy.world 15 points 1 day ago (1 children)

... And the cookies are also deleted when I close the window, where I can then re-open the browser for a different site if I like.

[–] skisnow@lemmy.ca 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I think you're probably going to be surprised when you discover how little that does to stop you getting tracked by the dozens of ad networks running their tracking pixels on that site.

[–] EtherWhack@lemmy.world 7 points 20 hours ago

I know... I'm just responding to the current subject of the meme, cookies.