Stanford, Mozilla, Opera Launch Web Privacy Initiative

An anonymous reader writes "Stanford Law School has kicked off a 'Cookie Clearinghouse' web privacy initiative that brings together researchers and browsers. The project aims to provide a centralized and trusted repository for whitelist and blacklist data on web tracking, much like StopBadware does for malware. Mozilla and Opera are collaborating on the initiative, and Mozilla plans to integrate it into Firefox's new default third-party cookie blocking. The leader of an advertising trade group has, of course, denounced the participating browsers as 'oligopolies.'"

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Microsoft and Apple's stance on this

[Power Rangers 2000]

What's most important is that both IE and Safari have supposed blocking third party cookies. Google even went to try to circumvent Safari's user privacy settings to be able to track users. Apple quickly followed with a fix.