Posted on 03/01/2013 2:55:09 PM PST by daniel1212
..In this case, the patch will only allow cookies to be installed on a user's system if a user visits the actual site from which the cookie comes. In other words: No site; no cookie.
As one might expect, Internet advertisers are not exactly embracing the switch with open arms.
"This default setting would be a nuclear first strike against ad industry," tweeted Mike Zaneis, senior vice president and general counsel for the Interactive Advertising Bureau.
However, it's important to clarify that the Firefox update doesn't unlock the capability to block third-party cookies. Users can already do that using a setting found within the "Privacy" tab of Firefox's general Options menu. What the update does do, however, is flip the switch for accepting third-party cookies off by default. - http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2415810,00.asp
Firefox is my only browser right now.
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BTW, Verizon sent a new wireless router and my Ubuntu Linux laptop would not work on it. The windows laptops in the house worked fine.
ugh
Firefox with Dark Orange Fox theme"
Linux forums are abound with such issues. Thank God for Firefox and OpenOffice/LibreOffice
My last Harddrive died.
I couldn’t really afford to pay for Windows
So Ubuntu Linux has been awesome ever since and LibreOffice
Firefox wore me out by version 15 with their rapid release insanity. That was about the time Firefox and Adobe Flash were crashing each other.
The upgrades were taking more time to get Firefox and the various extensions to work right than they were worth. I finally got things to work with version 15. I dread thinking about upgrading and having to deal with the incompatibilities and crashes with version 20 or later.
Heres how the new patch changed the extent to which I was tracked:
Current Default: Allow All Cookies |
Proposed New Default:
Allow Cookies Only From Visited Domains |
4 web sites used 8 first party domains | 4 web sites used 8 first party domains |
81 cookies from first party domains | 75 cookies from first party domains |
117 third party domains | 0 third party domains |
304 cookies from third party domains | 0 cookies from third party domains |
Total: 385 first & third party cookies | Total: 75 first party cookies |
Thanks, my reading comprehension is poor today
I do sympathize. I upgraded to W/864 bit from XP on a 7 yr. old PC for 30.00, with the (waiting) 40.00 rebate card. I tried every major Linux distro, but i simply could not get the functionality i easily get under Windows, unless i became a coder.
Here are a couple threads which express some of my wants, plus there is the problem of not being able to legally play all media formats.
http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=55&t=99416&p=566074#p566074
http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=90&t=122989
My experience since about then has been that there are far less incompatibilities with add ons than before.
Are your addons compatible with the next version of Firefox? Find out straight from the Addons window! https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/is-it-compatible/
That’s the only FR acceptable platform anyway, LOL.
Apple is run by a gay guy, and Gates/Ballmer were big donors to the Wash St gay marriage initiative.
The chart was not visible as such, as i should have copied the article and then copied from “view selection source” to paste the article.
fyi
I am a little confused by this. Since there is a check box in firefox 3 to disable 3rd party cookies. This feature has been around a long time.
Then how do I get rid of
NETASSISTANT
http://search.freeze.com/search.aspx?programid=167&q=d.yimg.com%2fjq%2fcss%2fcs_3.7.2.css&ApplicationID={AA3870D7-E684-4782-ABE1-DFC9B2615709}&sc=&keywords=&programname=My.Freeze.Com&isFromErrorPage=1&SearchConfigurationID=4&SearchType=3&ApplicationType=2&type=W3i_NA,167,3_6,NA%20Error,00000000,0,0,0,0
I’ve been using Ghostery for several months now — ever since I learned about it on Free Republic. Highly recommended (and free!).
I hate IE. Trying to put Firefox/Mozilla on a WIN7 machine. I hate Win 7 so far. Download stuff and can’t apply it. Is there some setting I know nothing about? I have Norton startup for new comp but didn’t activate it. Want another virus program but I’ve heard Norton is hard to bypass. Any advice?
we still use the old router, nothing wrong with it
Next they should look at blocking Flash cookies.
To explain, there is a feature in Adobe Flash that is like a “cookie backup”, so if you delete the cookie in your browser, all the data is maintained in the invisible Flash cookie, and as soon as your browser cookie is remade, it is loaded with all the old data, with you none the wiser.
http://www.macromedia.com/support/documentation/en/flashplayer/help/settings_manager07.html
Fortunately, at this website, Adobe provides a Flash cookie manager. While this looks like a picture, it is actually a dynamic control panel, called “Website Storage Settings panel.”
It displays what Flash cookies are on your system, and allows you to manipulate them in several ways, including deleting them. Since they are the backup, it is probably best to delete them before you delete your browser cookies in the ordinary way.
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