- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2008 10:18:57 +0000 (UTC)
- To: "Barclay, Daniel" <daniel@fgm.com>
- Cc: public-html-comments@w3.org
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.) -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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