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Blaming privacy violations on cookies has been an absolute masterclass in public relations and is probably the greatest innovation of FANNG.

• devrandoom 1y ago
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  • Henchman21 1y ago
    Man this reminds me a lot of bank fraud, er… I meant “identity theft”!
• matthewdgreen 1y ago
  As another user notes above, there are relatively few applications of 3rd party cookies that aren’t a direct privacy violation or that can’t be realized some other way. If the manufacturer installed a special slot on your car that was explicitly designed so that anyone could install a tracking device, the first thing you’d probably do is fill that slot up with epoxy. But when we discuss simply removing that slot as a manufacturer default, everyone on HN is suddenly up in arms: “why are you blaming the third party tracking slot!? The slot itself isn’t what’s tracking you.”
  • orangecat 1y ago
    Right. Disabling third party cookies is the first thing I do with any browser (the second being uBlock Origin), and it's caused problems on exactly one site that I can recall over the last several years.
    • timewizard 1y ago
      That's because Safari made that default years ago and we've all built workarounds for this anyways. Due to the proliferation of JavaScript and it's being default enabled on all sites or they _will_ break... and the ease of setting up APIs in the cloud.. your privacy settings really don't matter much anymore anyways. Likewise "autoplay blocking" isn't too hard to overcome. It's more out of politeness that it's ever honored.
    • Yeul 1y ago
      I have two browsers on my phone. One is locked down and the other one is vanilla for those rare cases when I absolutely need to experience the internet as intended.