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"A better experience" = "targeted ads" = "we're trying to take your money". I consider cookies to be evil for just that reason; when all this became an issue in the EU, the response was, now you have to click this button to accept cookies to use that website. What if I want to use the website without accepting cookies? My browser (Firefox) used to have a delete all cookies on exit option, but that was removed; now I run a short script each week that deletes the cookie data base. Works like a charm.
Just as a "thought experiment": if you really wanted to bring doom and destruction to the world of computers, here's how to do it: have a virus which propagates itself, but doesn't do any actual damage, to other countries, but not to North America or Europe, and not to the same country it's propagating from. After a few days, remove those exceptions. After a day or so more, turn on the damage. By this time it will be all over the place requiring a massive cleanup effort. Just sayin'.
LOL to "giving it to or trading it with a friend who is not responsible with it". At college, I wrote a program called CONINSIM (CONsole INput SIMulator) that made my program look like a fully-authorized operator's console (we're talking about a mainframe over 40 years ago). I did it for the pride of knowing I could; I never intended to use it destructively. I gave a copy to my friend *******, who immediately used it to cancel JES, without which the system immediately crashed. We both got in big trouble for it. When I asked why he did it, he said, "I didn't think it would work".
