Full third-party cookie blocking and more

I'm confused about if this means that IndexedDB will always wipe data after 7 days. That seems like it would prevent storage from being used for user data in PWAs.

The 7-Day Cap on All Script-Writeable Storage is troublesome: if I don&#x27;t log into a computer for a week &#x27;cause I&#x27;m on vacation then you wipe my saved data? I have local storage based utilities I&#x27;ve written that I sometimes don&#x27;t touch for weeks, but whenever I go back everything I put in there is STILL THERE.<p>Seems like a great way to drive less use of local browser storage options and promote greater use of cloud storage solutions. Cynical me says &quot;YAY iCloud&quot;.

I&#x27;ve had third party cookies blocked for years in Firefox. It doesn&#x27;t break much.

&gt; Safari continues to pave the way for privacy on the web, this time as the first mainstream browser to fully block third-party cookies by default<p>Too bad Safari isn&#x27;t my default browser anymore, ever since they essentially killed it when they neutered extensions.

You know what I&#x27;d really like from Apple: a per-site option for disabling JavaScript and another for blocking even first-party cookies.

Rather than wiping indexed DB data after 7 days, could you not just make it an opt in thing, like the camera or mic? For example, ask users &quot;Allow myapp.com to store app related data on your computer?&quot;. If they allow it, then give access to indexed DB API. That way we can still have fully local PWAs.

Still dreaming of a way to block cookies per-domain<p>Edit: someone just told me you can do it with osx adguard, in the user rules you can set &quot;||domain.com^$cookie&quot; to block all cookies from domain.com

I might be misremembering, but didn’t Safari block third-party cookies by default before all this tracking protection stuff started?

Is there any legitimate reason Chrome doesn&#x27;t follow suit other than they like ad revenue? An answer from a Googler here would be great. And a real answer, not corp-speak.<p>Blocking third party cookies seems like overall a good thing for security. Security is good right?<p>Edit: 2 years is a long time to wait for a security improvement that is literally flipping a switch.

The list of addons I consider essential for privacy just keeps growing. Here is another great addition: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;Cookie-AutoDelete&#x2F;Cookie-AutoDelete" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;Cookie-AutoDelete&#x2F;Cookie-AutoDelete</a><p>Does what it says on the tin.

&gt; this time as the first mainstream browser to fully block third-party cookies by default<p>Third party cookies have been blocked in Firefox since September 3rd (2019) [1]. They mention Brave in the article, so surely Firefox being large than Brave should be included in &quot;Major browsers&quot;, but not a single mention was made in the article. It really reminds me of the meme &quot;what do you mean you&#x27;ve seen it?&quot;.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.mozilla.org&#x2F;blog&#x2F;2019&#x2F;09&#x2F;03&#x2F;todays-firefox-blocks-third-party-tracking-cookies-and-cryptomining-by-default&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.mozilla.org&#x2F;blog&#x2F;2019&#x2F;09&#x2F;03&#x2F;todays-firefox-bloc...</a>

Are there efforts to cloak third party cookies via the first party domain?

meh. i mean ok yes this does kill the tracking (although i can imagine how to be more devious) but i already <i>very</i> easily do this with ghostery.<p>i suppose it’s great for the 90% of “default settings” users.<p>because a solution (many) is already available for tracker blocking , i’d rather see effective html5 video and popup blocking. is that infeasible?

Soooo... like Firefox has done be default since June 2019 then <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.mozilla.org&#x2F;blog&#x2F;2019&#x2F;09&#x2F;03&#x2F;todays-firefox-blocks-third-party-tracking-cookies-and-cryptomining-by-default&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.mozilla.org&#x2F;blog&#x2F;2019&#x2F;09&#x2F;03&#x2F;todays-firefox-bloc...</a> ?<p>I guess later is better than never, but this seems like something they could have done long ago.

So much for the advertisement-powered web. Congratulations, privacy people: you win. I hope the new web is everything you hoped. If it isn&#x27;t, you have only yourselves to blame. Enjoy the paywalls.