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Ask HN: Whats the difference between cross-site cookies and third-party cookies?
Firefox’s Enhanced Tracking Protection uses both the terms “cross-site cookies” and “third-party cookies”. What’s the difference?
Screenshot of Firefox’s settings: https://imgur.com/lXLgd8o
- mtmail 4y agoI think Firefox comes with a pre-defined list of "Social media trackers", "Cryptominers", "Fingerprinters" domains so that's cross-site cookies. https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/enhanced-tracking-protection-firefox-desktop https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/enhanced-tracking-prote... It's confusing wording regardless. Doesn't help that on the help page https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/firefox-options-preferences-and-settings https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/firefox-options-prefere... they call it web cookies.
- zagrebian 4y agoI think cryptominers are fingerprinters are scripts. Scripts are not cookies.