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Such as? It's been years since I allowed third party cookies and I've never noticed any issues.
Amazon Payments will not work with third party cookies turn off. PayPal actually works better than Amazon in that regards.
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I don't think it's that simple. I believe people do care if they're getting tracked, for what reason, and for the possible repercussions. We can compare the issues between a marketing on Facebook re-targeting you and the government recording your text messages. In one scenario, your preferences are exposed and used to present you with an advertisment to buy a good. In the other scenario, you can be analyzed for wheth…
Compare these scenarios: 1 a cop is passing by your house and sees you commit a murder. 2 government finds out from your phone's GPS data + public camera face recognition that you committed a murder 3 you admit to a murder on phone with an accomplice Why is one way of collecting evidence any better than the other. If you commit a crime, you should be convicted. Just because you are able to hide certain types of evide…
Kind of a misleading headline. Look through the list of third-party cookies in your browser if you want to see who is tracking you. This is a list of ad companies who have agreed to offer an option not to track you.
People don't care. It is funny that smart people don't care about tech and ad companies violating their privacy by collecting data and profiting from it. But they have an issue with the government doing it to protect them. Perhaps has something to do with the fact that silicon valley's success is based on the advertising business model and violation of people's privacy.
Someone's going to try to sell me something I'm susceptible to buying? So what. Authorities don't collect data on you to protect you, they are ostensibly doing it to protect other citizens from you. One of the reasons that "smart" people object to this, is that it could also limit their ability to play a leadership role in civic life, if there are people in positions of authority with different political philosophies…
Also fun -- see what Yahoo thinks your interest are: https://aim.yahoo.com/aim/us/en/optout/
So I can assume Yahoo isn't the one watching this particular bit of my internet traffic...
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I tried disabling it around 2003 and had tons of problems with payment processors (using iFrames) and shared authentication schemes. But after just researching it, it appears things may have improved. Apple made the default for Safari to block third party cookies, so if you want to be Mac/iPhone compatible you de-facto have to not break.
13 years ago?
People don't care. It is funny that smart people don't care about tech and ad companies violating their privacy by collecting data and profiting from it. But they have an issue with the government doing it to protect them. Perhaps has something to do with the fact that silicon valley's success is based on the advertising business model and violation of people's privacy.
It is easy for tech guys to talk about this, they are already involved and understand what is going on.
Gives me some confidence in uBlock & Privacy Badger... The first time I ran it there was 1 site tracking me (adbrain).. I adjusted my PB settings accordingly and got 0. It's a useful site for calibrating those tools! http://i.imgur.com/hdReODM.png
If you're going to the trouble of running Privacy Badger and uBlock, I would have to recommend going the further step and getting Self-Destructing Cookies.