<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Feb 6, 2016 at 12:11 AM, Tanvi Vyas <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:tanvi@mozilla.com" target="_blank">tanvi@mozilla.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Shouldn't disabling third party cookies be good enough to disable tracking? Maybe combined with Tracking Protection?<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Yes there are indeed alternatives that don't require micro-management to be effective, like disallowing third party cookies, using tracking protection with the Strict list and the various add-ons that can block unwanted contents (Ghostery, Cookie controller, Privacy Badger, Ublock, AdBlock plus) and that can also handle personal lists.<br><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
It would be nice if we had a cookie blocking override UI. That way, privacy conscious users could block all cookies all third party cookies (or even block all cookies), and then use the override for sites that break or sites that they need to login to.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Provided it's not an usability modal dialogs nightmare like the old one. Fwiw tracking protection allows to unblock single pages, as well as most of the above add-ons.<br>But honestly, are we sure today's Web is still compatible with cookies micro-management on the user side, as it used to be 10 years ago?<br><br></div><div>-m<br></div></div></div></div>