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You should only use cookies if you need to use them. Otherwise, you generate more work for your users and could be contributing to the wear and tear of their hard drive. While some poorly designed sites use cookies for navigation or for nonsense reasons, the main purpose of cookies is to have persistent data between sessions. If someone logs in, that information could be stored in a cookie. Of course it would be generated security keys that should be stored, never the user's own information unless it is encrypted.

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