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When you mentioned reddit I thought you were talking about their "install the app" pop up. They have by far the worst mobile experience out of any site I've use more than once in the last 2 years.
Fortunately it takes one tap to update your preference to have it stop nagging you to install the app. https://www.reddit.com/r/redditmobile/comments/6hk9ot/androi...
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They are also entirely voluntary - which the EU would've known if decision makers had visited their browser settings once.
The notice is only for cookies used for non-essential tasks (like analytics) and doesn't have to be shown for things like login sessions. Your browser can't distinguish between those.
Prior to that you could just disable them if you liked.
One can say that policy makers had good intentions - certainly. However, I can not imagine a valid evaluation that wouldn't conclude this policy as failure.
Now I'm using them for Gmail, Youtube, Twitter & FB. The three amigos, the internet bad guys. I really should just delete the last two accounts, but I feel a heck of a lot better now. I used to keep those in Microsoft Edge, a browser pretty much relegated to that dirty, social media duty alone. If I can use Firefox for everything, and cut off Google while I'm at it, even better.
Third party cookies, and any way to fingerprint a specific user starting from high entropy user agents to screen resolution, font fingerprinting or canvas data, should be considered a breach of the browser security model. All sites should run in containers and no advertiser should be able to track you across sessions. When I want 3rd party interaction, I should need to opt in and connect the current site with Faceboo…
It seems to me, if users act differently, there "should" be a way to fingerprint them.
Third party cookies, and any way to fingerprint a specific user starting from high entropy user agents to screen resolution, font fingerprinting or canvas data, should be considered a breach of the browser security model. All sites should run in containers and no advertiser should be able to track you across sessions. When I want 3rd party interaction, I should need to opt in and connect the current site with Faceboo…
Unsurprisingly there is no Google container for Firefox
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The notice is only for cookies used for non-essential tasks (like analytics) and doesn't have to be shown for things like login sessions. Your browser can't distinguish between those.
The cookie notice policy led to the worst imaginable actual outcome: A state in which you either accept cookies (incl. third party) by default or you will be haunted by numbing "reminders" that cookies exist. Usually taking large parts of your small screen estate. Prior to that you could just disable them if you liked. One can say that policy makers had good intentions - certainly. However, I can not imagine a valid…
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When you mentioned reddit I thought you were talking about their "install the app" pop up. They have by far the worst mobile experience out of any site I've use more than once in the last 2 years.
Twitter mobile. Scroll down for a screen, full page "Log in/Sign up" popup. Every single page.
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Fortunately it takes one tap to update your preference to have it stop nagging you to install the app. https://www.reddit.com/r/redditmobile/comments/6hk9ot/androi...
It should not be opt-out though
Third party cookies, and any way to fingerprint a specific user starting from high entropy user agents to screen resolution, font fingerprinting or canvas data, should be considered a breach of the browser security model. All sites should run in containers and no advertiser should be able to track you across sessions. When I want 3rd party interaction, I should need to opt in and connect the current site with Faceboo…
Exactly. Why aren't all websites run in containers by default (personally I'm envisioning per-domain containers)? What benefit do we get from full-coverage containerization not being the default?
We're so deep in this that a first party isolation would break almost every single website. In a cooperation with Tor, Mozilla actually ported the first-party isolation feature in mainstream Firefox (available in Nightly, don't know about stable), but since it would break almost every single website, there are no plans to turn it on by default. You can, of course, enable it yourself by turning on "privacy.firstparty.isolate" in about:config.
Disclaimer: I'm a Mozilla Foundation affiliate that has nothing to do with Mozilla Corporation nor Firefox.