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Owen Densmore

Fwd: Firefox will block third-party cookies in a future version | Ars Technica

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I recently stumbled across a couple of articles about firefox blocking 3rd party cookies by default:
http://arstechnica.com/business/2013/02/firefox-22-will-block-third-party-cookies/

.. so I decided to clear all my cookies and start blocking 3rd party cookies (easy to do in chrome)

But the huge laugh, is that ars itself had a HUGE number of 3rd party cookies blocked!

How do I know? Chrome shows a cookie icon in the omnibar when cookies are blocked. Click through shows the blocked sites. Look at that! 11 sites not at ars! I started to enter a /. article and .. guess what? Them too.

I usually don't worry about this sort of thing, but its easy for blackhats to install an "advertisement" on a site in such a way to also be a third party. Sorta uncomfortable for me, anyway.

But want a real laugh? Beam into http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/partners/

.. yup .. three 3rd party cookies!

-- Owen

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Arlo Barnes

Re: Fwd: Firefox will block third-party cookies in a future version | Ars Technica

I believe the 'cookies in the omnibar' icon is from a plugin, not vanilla Chrome. Is this correct?

-Arlo James Barnes

Owen Densmore

Re: Fwd: Firefox will block third-party cookies in a future version | Ars Technica

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On Sat, Mar 16, 2013 at 3:24 PM, Arlo Barnes <[hidden email]> wrote:

I believe the 'cookies in the omnibar' icon is from a plugin, not vanilla Chrome. Is this correct?
-Arlo James Barnes

Checking extensions and plugins, I didn't see one relating to cookies so I believe this is built in.

Go to settings > advanced > privacy > content settings and there is help for managing cookies. There's a block third party setting which then shows the cookie icon when a page has them. They are amazingly common, more so than not, I think.

-- Owen