Firefox Will Soon Block Third-Party Cookies

Post by muyuu » Sun, Feb 24, 2013, 1:13 PM UTC

DanielN wrote: post #70

jacquesm wrote: post #2

Excellent. Now we need to block third party javascript and then we have a chance at a more secure web. After all, any third party javascript could be done by an underwater call between the server and the provider of the service.

There is plenty of third party javascript that is not at all predatory. Pretty much all analytics services, Olark and other similar customer outreach services, A/B testing suites. There is far more of a push to create new more secure avenues for third party js (namely cors and websockets) to exist than there are efforts to eliminate it. I'm curious how this change will effect services like optimizely that rely on thi…

Post by radd9er » Sun, Feb 24, 2013, 3:00 PM UTC

lifeisstillgood wrote: post #59

chewxy wrote: post #18

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There is a general rule of thumb that a person has to look at/interact with/be cognitively aware of an ad at least 7 times before any action can be taken. Showing ads across sites is just one more way to do that. In fact I would rather have relevant ads show up than irrelevant ads. I will admit that many companies out there do overdo their retargeting campaign though. That's what the company does that is mistaken, no…

Sorry, retargeting ? I assume this is why I get ads for stuff I just bought on wildly different sites - the advertising network server asks for my cookie before serving the ad and so can identify me? Yeah that's annoying. I will install adblock one day, but in defence of chewxy I just tend to avoid sites with that crap on them anyway.