"Total cookie protection" from Firefox

Posted Jun 14, 2022 14:45 UTC (Tue) by josh (subscriber, #17465)
In reply to: "Total cookie protection" from Firefox by Archimedes
Parent article: "Total cookie protection" from Firefox

Features like this are a balance between protecting users and causing users to experience broken websites. I would expect that, leaving aside the usual problem of feature development roadmaps and development bandwidth, the biggest challenge with a feature like this is to avoid causing breakage that drives users away, makes them think websites are broken, makes them think the browser is broken, or similar.

"Total cookie protection" from Firefox

Posted Jun 14, 2022 15:22 UTC (Tue) by eduperez (guest, #11232) [Link] (2 responses)

What (legitimate) use cases could break because of this feature?

"Total cookie protection" from Firefox

Posted Jun 14, 2022 16:01 UTC (Tue) by josh (subscriber, #17465) [Link] (1 responses)

Single sign-on. Login via third-party service. Integration with a third-party service that benefits from the user being logged in to that service.

"Total cookie protection" from Firefox

Posted Jun 14, 2022 21:07 UTC (Tue) by iabervon (subscriber, #722) [Link]

I think it needs to be a bit more clever than the brief description (like, if a site redirects you somewhere, and then that site redirects you back, cookies from the middle ought to go in the original/final site's jar in order to match how it appears to the user). But I'd prefer that embedded YouTube videos don't act like I'm logged in unless I say to share that aspect.