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Under a toot announcing that firefox now supports CHIPS (Cookies Having Independent Partitioned State) (lemmy.zip)
submitted 10 months ago by Blisterexe@lemmy.zip to c/firefox@lemmy.ml
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[-] Nobilmantis@feddit.it 60 points 10 months ago

Isn't this the same as "Total Cookie Protection" that was released a while ago?

[-] Blisterexe@lemmy.zip 97 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Yes and no, total cookie protection prevents cookies from loading from other sites, CHIPS is a new standard that makes it so that that is impossible* to begin with. (simpifying here but thats the idea)

*unless the browser allows it

[-] ReversalHatchery@beehaw.org 12 points 10 months ago

my impression was that it was impossible already, because there was effectively a different cookie storage for every site

[-] ReversalHatchery@beehaw.org 26 points 10 months ago

oh

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Privacy/Privacy_sandbox/Partitioned_cookies

CHIPS is similar to the state partitioning mechanism implemented by Firefox. The difference is that state partitioning partitions cookie storage and retrieval into separate cookie jars for each top-level site, without a mechanism to allow opt-in to third-party cookies if desired. As browsers start to phase out third-party cookie usage, there are still valid, non-tracking uses of third-party cookies that need to be permitted while developers begin to handle this change.

so this adds a setting to allow a site access to shared 3rd party cookies, when the site supports the feature?

[-] LWD@lemm.ee 4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

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[-] Blisterexe@lemmy.zip 7 points 10 months ago

You can embed bits of a website in other websites, that's how 3rd party cookies exist

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