Comment on Why has Firefox not removed third-party cookies, despite the fact that Chrome has begun phasing them out?

• c10l@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  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: …mozilla.org/…/third-party-cookies-firefox-tracki…

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  • Rob@lemdro.id ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    There is that too.

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• Rob@lemdro.id ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I do agree, that removing it would improve user privacy, however I feel that should be up to the user to decide on their own if they want or don’t want third party tracking cookies as it has been.

  The alternative that Google proposed I don’t think it’s any better then what is was before with 3rd party tracking cookies. I’d say it’s worse since it introduces new problems while keeping old problems under a new name.

  If everything goes through Google, no one has personal control and that’s what i’m against. This encourages what open source users should be against.

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  • Spotlight7573@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    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?

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    • atrielienz@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      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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      • Rob@lemdro.id ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Yes, Google isn’t getting rid of tracking in it’s entirety, they’re just getting rid of the tracking competition on the Chrome browser. And no one has the guts to make their own commercial browser to stick it to Google and their monopoly, all we really have are open source browsers. Even Edge has to be open source to an extent since they borrow from Chromium.

        I wouldn’t go so far as to just assume that all younger gen people aren’t tech savvy. I guess it would just depend on the person and how casual or into tech they really are.

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• GBU_28@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  You clearly don’t know what you’re talking about.

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  • TheBlackLounge@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    That’s why they’re asking

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    • GBU_28@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      They’re asking in a presumptive, judgemental way

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• Spotlight7573@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I believe Mozilla said it best here:

  blog.mozilla.org/…/improving-privacy-without-brea…

  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.

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