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There are lots of cases where third party cookies are used as auth tokens, not tracking tokens. Seems to me that the browser vendors should get together and com
by cromwellian 14y ago
There are lots of cases where third party cookies are used as auth tokens, not tracking tokens. Seems to me that the browser vendors should get together and come up with a better solution for browsers to store and manage auth tokens.
Right now it is done piecemeal by websites, but is confusing to end users. Having a direct, first-class API and UI in the browser that can show the user exactly what third party sites they are "logged into" and have a "Logout/Deauthorize" button next to them would be worthwhile, and have less of a chance of "breaking the web", or imposing workarounds that might hurt user experience.
BTW, how does Firefox treat a CORS XHR response? Does it allow a cookie to be set? Seems to be ad trackers could then just run a server that permits CORS, have a bit of JS that makes the request to opt it back in.
- fpgeek 14y agoIsn't improved browser-level authentication handling (including not letting information leak via authentication) one of the things BrowserID is about?