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> You are a Firefox developer, right?

Well, sure, but that's not relevant for purposes of this discussion. ;) The fact that I use the browser and turn off third-party cookies is the relevant part.

> The other browsers just block the setting of new cookies > by 3rd parties.

Ah, interesting. That significantly reduces the value of that setting, as you point out.

I suppose we could look into blocking the setting of such cookies by default and only the sending when the pref is flipped. I'll file a bug, thanks!



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