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Still makes me wonder why Safari can block third party cookies by default, while Mozilla can't.

• javery 11y ago
  Two reasons. 1. Because they always have. The precedence was set a long time ago. 2. Because Apple doesn't give a fuck what other people think.
• mike_hearn 11y ago
  Safari doesn't. They advertise that they do but the policy is riddled with heuristic exemptions added in as they tried to fix broken websites. This (IMO dishonest) behaviour is what led to the Murdoch-driven blowup about Google and ad tracking a few years ago - Google was using one of these workarounds when the user had opted in to ad tracking and it ended up disabling more of the safari cookie blocking logic than they expected. This undocumented behaviour then became Google's fault somehow, although really Safari was just not doing what it claimed it would do.