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Third-Party Cookies

The cluster focuses on debates about blocking or disabling third-party cookies in browsers to prevent tracking and privacy issues, questioning their necessity and effectiveness compared to other measures.

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AFAIK e.g US NYT TPC bar.com foo.com UK ITP DNT party cookies cookies party 3rd 3rd party block tracking disabling cookie firefox

Sample Comments

beaconstudios • Jan 21, 2019 • View on HN

Why are third party cookies allowed at all?

mwsherman • Sep 24, 2011 • View on HN

Wouldn’t disabling third-party cookies take care of this? (And many other questionable things?)

kome • Feb 24, 2021 • View on HN

Isn't blocking all third party cookies still better after all?

not_kurt_godel • Mar 28, 2018 • View on HN

How is this different/better than just disabling all third-party cookies?

carey • Apr 24, 2010 • View on HN

Isn’t this what enabling "block all third-party cookies without exception" in Chrome or disabling "accept third party cookies" in Firefox does?

iza • Jun 3, 2023 • View on HN

Wouldn't blocking third-party cookies prevent this? It should really be the default setting at this point.

JohnTHaller • May 25, 2018 • View on HN

Users are free to block third party cookies.

xmly • Apr 16, 2021 • View on HN

Because the 3rd party cookies are still here.

pxndx • May 23, 2014 • View on HN

I disabled third party cookies in Chrome. Doesn't this basically do the same?

driverdan • Dec 11, 2013 • View on HN

Disabling 3rd party cookies works just fine. I've been doing it for years.