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I have third-party cookies disabled, and have for years. A non-exhaustive list of sites where I have login or other problems as a result: 1) One of my local b
by bzbarsky 6y ago
I have third-party cookies disabled, and have for years. A non-exhaustive list of sites where I have login or other problems as a result:
1) One of my local banks (who use weird third-party hosted modules for some of their functionality).
2) Verizon.
3) T-Mobile
If I were a normal user, any one of these ("I have to do _what_ to see my FIOS bill?") could be a show-stopper.
Which is what makes it hard to turn this on by default without driving away users.
- grishka 6y agoOn the other hand, if third-party cookies were going away for real, this would force website developers to finally fix their crap.
- Karunamon 6y agoLeads to a prisoner's dilemma situation. A move like that has to be done by everyone in concert (example: killing Flash), or it's harmful to the one browser that blinks first. This thread contains plenty of examples of legitimate uses for third-party cookies. If FF instantly and immediately broke those, users would be cursing, not praising Firefox, and switching to a browser that doesn't break what they use.
- notpushkin 6y agoCan't we whitelist some of third-party cookies for the transition period?
- bzbarsky 6y agoIf they were going away for real across all browsers, yes. Historically getting some browsers on board with that program has been very difficult. Concretely: a large fraction of website developers would much rather put up "only works in Chrome" notices than fix their crap. [Disclaimer: I used to work at Mozilla, and have done my share of trying to push for turning off third-party cookies.]