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  • Moonrise2473@feddit.it
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    10 months ago

    those tables usually are wrong or misleading, i don’t like them.

    Edge for example has the 3rd party cookie blocking and it works ok, so why it’s “no” and not “somewhat” or similar?

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        10 months ago

        should be “prevent sites from tracking”. Or they carefully chose that sentence in order to give a “no” to edge and “somewhat” to chrome and opera

        • 𝒍𝒆𝒎𝒂𝒏𝒏@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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          10 months ago

          Firefox uses a built-in domain blocklist for tracking protection, in addition to blocking third party cookies

          Although that would not explain why Chrome and Opera pass that at all to begin with IMO. Maybe these browsers enforce their own additional data silos or other deviations from specs when in Private Browsing mode. I know Chrome for example shrinks the storage provision for various JS APIs down to practically nothing when in Incognito mode, which can break things like Teams Web etc when you start sharing files.

          Either way though all marketing ever is, is just a selection of carefully chosen words. In this case, browsers too, as there’s no Brave there (I’m not a fan of Brave anyway, but worth noting)

        • Rodeo
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          10 months ago

          Precisely why these “feature comparisons” are bogus.

        • fine_sandy_bottom@discuss.tchncs.de
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          10 months ago

          It’s this.

          Firefox’ total cookie protection does not block third party cookies, it isolates them in separate jars for each website…

          Total Cookie Protection works by creating a separate “cookie jar” for each website you visit. Instead of allowing trackers to link up your behavior on multiple sites, they just get to see behavior on individual sites. Any time a website, or third-party content embedded in a website, deposits a cookie in your browser, that cookie is confined to the cookie jar assigned to only that website. No other websites can reach into the cookie jars that don’t belong to them and find out what the other websites’ cookies know about you — giving you freedom from invasive ads and reducing the amount of information companies gather about you.

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      10 months ago

      The ‘Enforce users choice’ is just GPC on by default I believe. Which means nothing since it is still voluntary.

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      10 months ago

      Yeah I’m confused about what tracking Chrome blocks that Chredge does not.

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      10 months ago

      Does it, though? Or does Microsoft come under the second party label

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        10 months ago

        if i enable it, most websites don’t load ads at all, including MSN news that’s ad-ridden

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          10 months ago

          the ‘msn news’ that most people see is the ‘start’ page that’s baked into the edge browser. ubo does not work on it. for users that actually want that page, i clean up the start page settings and throw a bookmark to msn.com on their toolbar instead so ubo works.