Disable third-party cookies as a hedge against a new browser-based attack<article>
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Browser cookies were always a compromise. Surfing at its start decades ago was
stateless: there was no connection between retrieving one page and the next. A cookie allowed a server (among other possibilities) to send a token that the browser could accept and then pass back with each subsequent request, allowing the server to create a session during which it could remember a browser. The compromise was that the continuity added by cookies also has the potential to cause privacy leaks.</p><p>
A new attack on your privacy leverages browsers’ ability to allow third-party cookies, ones that aren’t delivered by the site you’re visiting, but used by scripts or content delivered from other sites. Third-party cookies most commonly get used by advertising technology that serves up scripts and other media hosted elsewhere, and employs cookies to track you.</p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/3106793/security/disable-third-party-cookies-as-a-hedge-against-a-new-browser-based-attack.html#jump">To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here[/url]</p></section></article>
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Disable third-party cookies as a hedge against a new browser-based attack
