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Under a toot announcing that firefox now supports CHIPS (Cookies Having Independent Partitioned State) (lemmy.zip)
submitted 1 year ago by Blisterexe@lemmy.zip to c/firefox@lemmy.ml
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[–] Blisterexe@lemmy.zip 95 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

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 1 year ago (2 children)

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

[–] ReversalHatchery@beehaw.org 25 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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 1 year ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

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[–] Blisterexe@lemmy.zip 7 points 1 year ago

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