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

Posted by Owen Densmore on Mar 16, 2013; 3:27am
URL: http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/Fwd-Firefox-will-block-third-party-cookies-in-a-future-version-Ars-Technica-tp7582078.html

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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