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Firefox Will Soon Block Third-Party Cookies
An anonymous reader writes "Stanford researcher Jonathan Mayer has contributed a Firefox patch that will block third-party cookies by default. It's now on track to land in version 22. Kudos to Mozilla for protecting their users and being so open to community submissions. The initial response from the online advertising industry is unsurprisingly hostile and blustering, calling the move 'a nuclear first strike.'"
[grumpy cat] Good.
If the advertising industry is still capable of responding, we obviously haven't nuked them enough yet.
Wait a second. "Think of the children" used to PROMOTE privacy? That's not how it's supposed to work! My head hurts, I have to go and lie down for a while...
Science advances one funeral at a time- Max Planck
Sites will start blocking Firefox browsers. If enough popular sites do this, people will be switching to other browsers. Or people will start making Firefox masquerade as a different browser, which (if it becomes popular) will subsequently be made illegal. That is assuming that third-party cookie blocking won't just be made illegal.
It is appropriate to describe this as a first-strike, because there will be a retaliatory salvo, and much of our Internet freedom will get caught in the crossfire.
What a frelling disaster. The end of third party cookies will pose problems for my household. My wife is getting better at baking but so far cookies seem beyond her even with third party products.
About the only thing that'll survive a nuclear war is cockroaches. So, if the cookie tracking online ad industry survives this nuclear strike, are they cockroaches...?