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I'd be tempted to nuance that:

  [ ] Cookies - stored locally and sent to web-sites automatically
  [ ] Local Storage - not automatically sent to web-sites
In all cases I veer towards sharing explicit details. If users choose to not understand it fully that is fine. I don't like 'dumbing-down' or simplifying taking away explicit details with no easy way to get it in the same place as the 'simple' exposition.



That’s a distinction without a difference IMHO.

Local storage (or Cache API, IndexedDB) + Service Worker = Cookies (simply add a header to every request)

Local storage + DOM manipulation to add search params with the stored content = Cookies (apart from first navigation)

And on the flip side

Cookies set using JS + Ignore cookies server side = Local storage

It’s almost like the object/closure equivalence.




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