Firefox blocks known trackers and isolates third party cookies per site. They do have legitimate uses, and not every site has made the switch to modern tech that could replace it.
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/blog/goodbye-third-party-cookies/
That’s the superior approach and Firefox introduced it far earlier than Google addressed the problem.
Why OP is blindly arguing in that corp’s favor and ignoring all the reasoning provided here, is beyond me. Shilling?
Yeah my company uses them for integrating some of our apps together. They aren’t used for tracking at all, and we’d be up shits creek if they were, because our (corporate) customers audit that sort of thing.
Because of Google we’ve had to create an alternative solution which has taken years to develop and is only getting deployed now. Those fuckers have way too much power over the Internet.
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The option to disable third party cookies has been in pretty much every browser (Chrome included) for decades. OP is talking about Google’s move to make it the default.
Is it default? Idk
No because some pages might break
I’m confused. Didn’t this start at the beginning of last year?
https://blog.mozilla.org/security/2021/02/23/total-cookie-protection/
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Third-party cookies make tracking users easier. I am not asking Firefox to follow Chrome at each step.
I am just asking for the privacy browser to improve users’ privacy by removing support for third-party cookies, because it theoretically will not break anything.
3rd party cookies make tracking users easier when the same cookie can be used on many websites.
Firefox does 2 things to protect you from that: it blocks known trackers cookies by default; and for the others it isolates them per domain so that kind of tracking doesn’t happen. That ensures you’re not tracked and at the same time it doesn’t break any functionality.
If you want to completely block them you can. There’s more info here: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/third-party-cookies-firefox-tracking-protection
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I’m not sure how moving stuff like topics of interest into the browser where it can be modified/turned off by the user in a single, local location isn’t an improvement over the current situation?
Because google is still tracking you. They are just getting rid of third party cookies being able to follow you on the web. They have fingerprinted the chrome browser itself, so every instance of it is unique to the individual using it (or their hardware) with the intent of continuing to track you while making it difficult for other third parties to do the same. And they’re using deceptive language to make it seem like that’s not what’s happening. That language may not work on everyone but it will work on the vast majority especially of younger gen people who just aren’t as tech savvy despite how much tech is integrated into their lives.
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You clearly don’t know what you’re talking about.
That’s why they’re asking
They’re asking in a presumptive, judgemental way
I believe Mozilla said it best here:
https://blog.mozilla.org/data/2018/01/26/improving-privacy-without-breaking-the-web/
Firefox’s privacy protections must be usable on the web, or people will simply stop using Firefox altogether.
The web is not at the stage yet where third-party cookies can be disabled entirely. Chrome’s phase out of them this year should push all those sites still clinging to them to fix their sites. This should mean less problems when using Firefox’s privacy features. Firefox won’t necessarily need to remove the feature soon anyways since it already isolates them per site.
They will likely remove them soon I suppose. And it’s easier to leave the option available in case it breaks someone’s use-case until they fix it.
It’s been an option for as long as I can remember. I suppose they are leaving the default until websites adapt to chromes changes.
I think they took a different approach and block known trackers but not all cookies.
Blocking third-party cookies is a more effective way to protect user privacy than blocking tracking cookies, because third-party cookies can be used to track users across multiple websites.
Yes, but known 3rd party tracking cookies are already blocked. It’s not like these tracking sites pop up every day, but the list is updated when new ones are found. Meanwhile, 3rd party cookies for legitimate uses are allowed.
Whereas Google just blocked them all with no regard to their purpose.
You can also choose to block all 3rd party cookies in Firefox, although it might break certain sites. And you can also keep 3rd party cookies (that are more functional than tracking) but maintain a different copy for each website so they aren’t effective at tracking you.
Firefox gives you a lot of choice.
Mine has been blocking for years now. It’s already there, just not on by default. It does break some sites so am assuming that’s the reason. I just got use to the fact some sites will stop working and moved on.
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