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Why would anyone keep 3rd party cookies enabled? I have found only 2 or 3 sites that needed to be whitelisted. Everything else works just fine without them.
by driverdan 14y ago
Why would anyone keep 3rd party cookies enabled? I have found only 2 or 3 sites that needed to be whitelisted. Everything else works just fine without them.
- mattw 14y agoBecause a) it's the default, b) nobody remembers (or knows) to change it, and c) only folks like us even care.
- arscan 14y agoWhat sites, out of curiosity? Obviously all the like-like (likesque) buttons would no longer function, but I don't care about those. I was wondering what valid use case there is for 3rd party cookies that actually benefits the user and not the service provider.
- michaelt 14y agoSome blogs embed "Disqus" comment boxes, which require third party cookies [1]. Me, I can live without blog comments. [1] http://peter.upfold.org.uk/blog/2010/05/12/centralised-commenting-systems/ http://peter.upfold.org.uk/blog/2010/05/12/centralised-comme...
- henry_flower 14y agostackexchange 'global' login on their sites requires 3rd party cookies.
- aidenn0 14y agoThe open-id login does not and works great for me.
- Timothee 14y agoIn case anyone is interested, in Chrome (Mac at least), it's under Settings > Show advanced settings > Content Settings (under Privacy) and then the checkbox "Block third-party cookies and site data". http://www.evernote.com/shard/s8/sh/eb3a23ef-8902-4ae1-87d8-0c906f78cb70/43761caebb5c8bbd9712bdcf45c543de http://www.evernote.com/shard/s8/sh/eb3a23ef-8902-4ae1-87d8-... So I guess this is one reason why people leave that enabled: not quite obvious.