- From: Frank Ellermann <nobody@xyzzy.claranet.de>
- Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2008 12:58:27 +0200
- To: public-html-comments@w3.org
Ian Hickson wrote: > I don't know of any useful documentation on the subject. Nor me, not allowing 3rd party cookies is just common sense, when I visit site A I'm not interested in cookies from B. > IP addresses are, by and large, enough to perform pretty > much all the tracking you might want Depends. Using the same small ISP dial-in users could end up with getting similar IPs. If they change ISPs or it's a big ISP their IPs will differ. Static IPs are of course another scenario. > sites can bypass third-party cookie blocking by doing > first-party cookie transactions They'd do a part of that with their own bandwidth. Third party cookies are not only a privacy issue, they are also about bandwidth. > blocking third-party cookies ends up breaking a surprising > number of sites in subtle ways. Their problem. Third party cookies are known to be against the interest of the users. Frank
Received on Tuesday, 15 July 2008 10:58:47 UTC