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[–] [email protected] 205 points 2 months ago (4 children)

Hahahahaha so it doesn't break anything that still relies on cookies, but neuters the ability to share them.

That's awesome

[–] [email protected] 58 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

Honestly, I thought that's how it already worked.

Edit: I think what I'm remembering is that you can define the cookies by site/domain, and restrict to just those. And normally would, for security reasons.

But some asshole sites like Facebook are cookies that are world-readable for tracking, and this breaks that.

Someone correct me if I got it wrong.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Total Cookie Protection was already a feature, (introduced on Feb 23st 2021) but it was only for people using Firefox's Enhanced Tracking Protection (ETP) on strict mode.

They had a less powerful third-party cookie blocking feature for users that didn't have ETP on strict mode, that blocked third party cookies on specific block lists. (i.e. known tracking companies)

This just expanded that original functionality, by making it happen on any domain, and have it be the default for all users, rather than an opt-in feature of Enhanced Tracking Protection.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

That's not what I was thinking of, which was even more fundamental. But that's good info (and another way to cover stuff in the article).

Edit: what I was thinking originally was really stupid, that 3rd-party cookies weren't allowed at all. Which was really dumb since of course they are.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 2 months ago (2 children)

They've been doing this with container tabs, so this must be the successor to that idea (I'm going to assume they'll still have container tabs).

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Container tabs are still a thing in FF. This is based on that work, if I remember correctly.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I love container tabs. It's one of the reasons I went back to FF.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

Same, they're an absolute game changer for me. I have to use multiple different identities in work due to separate active directories and container tabs makes it super easy

[–] snaggen 7 points 2 months ago

Container tabs are still useful, as they let you use multiple Cookie jars for the same site. So, it is very easy to have multiple accounts on s site.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Unless that cookie was somehow important for you to use both sites, but thats incredibly rare.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

From my experience, blocking 3rd party cookies in general doesn't seem to make any difference for site functionality anyways. Though I never log into sites with a Google or FB account other than Google or FB sites (and rarely at all for the latter).

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago

I would love to see an icon of a neutered cookie please 🥺😄.