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/
this post was submitted on 17 Feb 2024
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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.
There's a check box in FF settings to block all third party cookies.
You should probably educate yourself before making inaccurate claims.
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.
I’m confused. Didn’t this start at the beginning of last year?
https://blog.mozilla.org/security/2021/02/23/total-cookie-protection/
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.
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.
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.
I think they took a different approach and block known trackers but not all cookies.
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