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0 pointsdrukenemo7y ago0 comments

I don't believe that many users are blocking first-party cookies. Source: I'm a web analyst managing large sites and can see how many visitors block all cookies. It's minimal. Also blocking first-party cookies requires a degree of tech-savviness and it prevents many websites from working properly.

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kop3167y ago

To add with that the parent comment said, I do as well, in two ways:

- IE prompts me if I want to block cookies on a website, so unless I trust it, I block by default.

- I have an extension on Firefox that is "Cookie Autodelete", so I visit a site and unless I whitelist it, all cookies will be deleted when I leave.

I wondering if you are not seeing blocked cookie because of the second one. I'm not blocking it, but as soon as I leave it gets deleted, effectively doing the same thing.

tomatotomato377y ago

One thing I want to add regarding "Cookie Autodelete" that tripped me up, unlike it's predecessor it does not default at the start to deleting everything, so you may end up running it for a year thinking it's clearing everything and than realize you have a multi-megabyte list full of tracking cookies.

mirimir7y ago

Right. I have Firefox configured to delete all cookies when I close it. And it only accepts 3rd-party cookies from sites that I've already visited during a session.

Marsymars7y ago

Cookie Autodelete is a step over that, it will automatically delete cookies from a site after you close the tab.

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