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[-] [email protected] 216 points 7 months ago

I’m pretty sure that Chrome’s alternative is designed by Google to track you in a way that’s harder to block and gives them more control over the advertising market by forcing advertisers to play along and use their method instead of collecting your data directly. Sure, it’s more private, but it’s still tracking you.

Firefox, on the other hand, is focusing on completely blocking cross-site tracking. They have no incentive to completely block 3rd party cookies as long as there is also a legitimate use case for them, but I guess they will eventually also block them if Chrome is successful in forcing websites to stop relying on them for core functionality.

[-] [email protected] 29 points 7 months ago

You’re telling me Firefox is the better browser?! Well colour me surprised.

[-] [email protected] 126 points 7 months ago

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/

[-] [email protected] 10 points 7 months ago

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?

[-] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

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.

[-] [email protected] 82 points 7 months ago

There's a check box in FF settings to block all third party cookies.

You should probably educate yourself before making inaccurate claims.

[-] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago

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.

[-] [email protected] 47 points 7 months ago

Firefox has been able to block all third-party / cross-site cookies for ages. It's just not the default because it breaks some sites. But dive into the settings and you can easily set it to block all cross-site cookies, or even all cookies if you prefer.

[-] [email protected] 36 points 7 months ago

I’m confused. Didn’t this start at the beginning of last year?

https://blog.mozilla.org/security/2021/02/23/total-cookie-protection/

[-] [email protected] 16 points 7 months ago

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.

[-] [email protected] 16 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

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.

[-] [email protected] 15 points 7 months ago

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.

[-] [email protected] 15 points 7 months ago

I think they took a different approach and block known trackers but not all cookies.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago
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