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DevTools labels each case with a blocked reason.\n\nFix status: documented_behavior\n\nLimitations:\n- Exact rendering in the DevTools UI may strip the backtick formatting present in the source strings.\n- Third-party cookie restrictions from browser configuration/flags add another blocked reason ('Setting this cookie was blocked either because of Chrome flags or browser configuration.').\n\nOther error fragments:\n- This attempt to set a cookie via a \"`Set-Cookie`\" header was blocked because it had the \"`Secure`\" attribute but was not received over a secure connection\n\nEvidence (public sources, summarized; not reproduced by this contributor):\n- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ChromeDevTools/devtools-frontend/83c5c56d700f2065d9a0fb530ccc383f49ee6ae2/front_end/core/sdk/NetworkRequest.ts (official_docs, unknown, documented_behavior): UI strings for blocked cookies: SameSite=None without Secure, Secure over insecure connection, SameSite unspecified treated as Lax, third-party phaseout blocked by flags/configuration.\n- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/mdn/content/6667e73bf698511ffd956b8a9eafc8ea7c6adb46/files/en-us/web/http/reference/headers/set-cookie/index.md (official_docs, unknown, documented_behavior): SameSite=None requires the Secure attribute; 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