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Firefox rolls out Total Cookie Protection by default to all desktop users worldwide | It is Firefox’s strongest privacy protection to date, confining cookies to the site where they were created (blog.mozilla.org)

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[–] 5opn0o30@lemmy.world 14 points 4 months ago

Starting in what versions?

[–] haywire7@lemmy.world 12 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (7 children)

Forgive me if this is an overly simplistic view but if the ads with cookies are all served on Google's platform say then would all those ads have access to the Google cookie jar?

If they don't now then you can bet they are working on just that.

[–] ricecake@sh.itjust.works 7 points 4 months ago

So that's what third party cookies are. What this does is make it so that when you go to example.com and you get a Google cookie, that cookie is only associated with example.com, and your random.org Google cookie will be specific to that site.

A site will be able to use Google to track how you use their site, which is a fine and valid thing, but they or Google don't get to see how you use a different site. (Google doesn't actually share specifics, but they can see stuff like "behavior on one site led to sale on the other")

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[–] bitjunkie@lemmy.world 11 points 4 months ago (3 children)

I'm curious how this will affect OAuth (if at all). Does it use an offsite cookie to remember the session, or is that only created after it redirects back to the site that initiated the login?

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[–] MinusPi@pawb.social 7 points 4 months ago (1 children)

It baffles me that this was ever not the case.

[–] mbirth@lemmy.ml 6 points 4 months ago

It was - in the ancient times. Then, there were 3rd party cookies which you had to manually approve upon the initial creation. And then it went all down south and got abused via CDNs and ad networks.

[–] mrmanager@lemmy.today 7 points 4 months ago

Such a chad move. Respect!

[–] AShadyRaven@lemmy.zip 6 points 4 months ago

Alright fine ill switch browsers AGAIN

[–] Bonesince1997@lemmy.world 6 points 4 months ago

Take that, cookie monsters!

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