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That makes sense, thanks. So a concrete example would be that a container would block a Google Analytics script from setting a first-party tracking cookie if,
by iamdamian 7y ago
That makes sense, thanks.
So a concrete example would be that a container would block a Google Analytics script from setting a first-party tracking cookie if, for some reason, my ad blocker weren’t already blocking that script.
(My understanding is that, with third-party cookie blocking, cookies are already isolated, but not if a site has set up first-party cookie tracking. That tracking can only be blocked at the script level.)
Is that about right?
- gshdg 7y agoContainers don’t block cookies. But a cookie set in one container is available only in that container, not in other containers.
- iamdamian 7y agoThat is true, although that says nothing about the ability of whoever provided the cookie to track you across containers through said cookie. I believe this is the basis for all cookie-based tracking. What I am gathering from this discussion is that containers are really not targeted at privacy as a use case, unless you have an ad blockers that isn't effectively blocking specific scripts from setting tracking cookies.
- gshdg 7y agoHow would it track you across containers with the cookie when the cookie set in one container doesn’t even exist in another?