<story><title>Firefox Will Soon Block Third-Party Cookies</title><url>http://yro.slashdot.org/story/13/02/23/2126246/firefox-will-soon-block-third-party-cookies?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&amp;utm_medium=feed</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>NelsonMinar</author><text>I blocked third party cookies in Chrome for awhile and finally gave up. It broke a surprising number of things, particularly Disqus embeds. Also the Instapaper bookmarklet although I admit that&apos;s a nerdy special case. Hopefully Firefox will have a way to let the user enable the few places where third party cookies are desired. That&apos;s a hard user interaction to get right.&lt;p&gt;(Disqus apparently now works without third party cookies: &lt;a href=&quot;http://help.disqus.com/customer/portal/articles/466235-enabling-cookies&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://help.disqus.com/customer/portal/articles/466235-enabl...&lt;/a&gt;)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Flenser</author><text>&lt;i&gt;Hopefully Firefox will have a way to let the user enable the few places where third party cookies are desired&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;They do. The title of the bug is &quot;Block cookies from sites I haven&apos;t visited&quot; and the blog post[1] explains that any site with 1st party cookies can set 3rd party cookies on other sites. Apparently this is how Safari works too.&lt;p&gt;[1]&lt;a href=&quot;http://webpolicy.org/2013/02/22/the-new-firefox-cookie-policy/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://webpolicy.org/2013/02/22/the-new-firefox-cookie-polic...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>Firefox Will Soon Block Third-Party Cookies</title><url>http://yro.slashdot.org/story/13/02/23/2126246/firefox-will-soon-block-third-party-cookies?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&amp;utm_medium=feed</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>NelsonMinar</author><text>I blocked third party cookies in Chrome for awhile and finally gave up. It broke a surprising number of things, particularly Disqus embeds. Also the Instapaper bookmarklet although I admit that&apos;s a nerdy special case. Hopefully Firefox will have a way to let the user enable the few places where third party cookies are desired. That&apos;s a hard user interaction to get right.&lt;p&gt;(Disqus apparently now works without third party cookies: &lt;a href=&quot;http://help.disqus.com/customer/portal/articles/466235-enabling-cookies&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://help.disqus.com/customer/portal/articles/466235-enabl...&lt;/a&gt;)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>chrisblackwell</author><text>To get sites like Disqus working while blocking third party cookies, just set an exception. I set exceptions for sites like google.com, disqus.com and evernote.com</text></comment>