[projectvrm] third-party cookies and about:permissions in Firefox

[Don Marti < >]

Interesting piece of privacy tech: a third-party
cookie permission setting in the about:permissions
page.  I'm seeing it in Firefox 18.

  https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=770705

  
https://wiki.mozilla.org/Privacy/Features/Per-Site_Third-Party_Cookie_Setting

There's a bunch of useful work going on in the guts
of the browser, and "Allow First Party Only" for
cookies is a good step.  That wiki page has some
notes on future directions.  I think Erin Griffith
is probably right on the big picture...

  "if things keep going the way they have, many
  adtech startups may find their products are suddenly
  useless."

  
http://pandodaily.com/2012/12/15/what-will-ad-tech-look-like-without-cookies/

but the details are still coming together.

The real danger is that we end up with what the
DMA did with email spam -- that encourage specific
practices and harm the rest of the industry:

  http://zgp.org/~dmarti/business/real-advertising-needs-a-voice/

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Don Marti                      +1-510-332-1587 (mobile)
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