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What? No. Just... No. My god - the misunderstanding around cookies is ridiculous. I blame the EU - they put a 'warning label' on them an now eveyone thinks they're just evil.
Firstly - Cookies are only allowed to be read/written by the site you requested from. If they could read all cookies that would be a MASSIVE security problem and the internet would be fundamentally unusable for business.
Secondly - This has nothing to do with tabs. Nothing. ... Nothing.
Thirdly - There are "third party" cookies which happen when a site coordinates with a third party for things like advertising and allows them to track hits when their ads are displayed. This requires both sites to cooperate. But also see "firstly" as it won't allow that third party access to, say, your authentication information.
Lastly - This still has nothing to do with tabs.
Nobody here said it would let them see your authentication details, so I'm not sure why you're so vigorously fighting that straw man. Third-party cookies absolutely let them know which other sites you've visited. That's their main purpose.
Your session ID is stored in a cookie. That is what a website uses to know that you're logged in. With a XSS attack one can steal your session and use the site as though they were you. So yes - it is "authentication details".
Nobody here mentioned it because nobody here seems to know what they're talking about...
And they are not stopped by using a separate VM with a web browser. So....