Re: 4.12.2.1: "paranoid user"

On Mon, 14 Jul 2008, Barclay, Daniel wrote:
> >>
> >> Could you provide a pointer?
> > 
> > A pointer to what?
> 
> To information about turning off cookies and what it does and doesn't 
> accomplish.

I don't know of any useful documentation on the subject. Basically the 
problem is that IP addresses are, by and large, enough to perform pretty 
much all the tracking you might want; that sites can bypass third-party 
cookie blocking by doing first-party cookie transactions; and that 
blocking third-party cookies ends up breaking a surprising number of sites 
in subtle ways. (Several sites fall into infinite redirect loops, for 
intance, when third-party cookies are disabled.)

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