[tor-talk] [OT[ New web-cookie policies on internet

[Mike Cardwell]

* on the Fri, May 30, 2014 at 09:32:15AM -0500, Joe Btfsplk wrote:
>>>> Anyone else noticing slashdot, google, and a few
>>>> other big ones i can't recall, now throwing annoying
>>>> popups with 'hey, we're using cookies, click to agree
>>>> to this' ? What new legal groupthink bs is behind this?
>>> It has to do with some law in the EU[1] that apparently isn't
>>> enforced[2] (at least in the UK).  It is actually a few years old.
>> Myself and a few other people have been slowly building an Adblock
>> filter list to remove these cookie warnings from sites for about 2
>> years now:
>>
> That's good, but how will blocking the "cookies required" pop ups or 
> redirected page notices help, when many sites largely *won't work,* 
> unless cookies are allowed (at least, 1st party)?

It doesn't help in that regard, and doesn't claim to.

> I've encountered quite a few sites (not 100's) where pages won't even 
> load until session / temp cookies are allowed.  3rd party cookies are 
> blocked.
> 
> Generally, I delete these 1st party cookies as soon as the page / tab is 
> closed - which is kind of a pain.  If these 1st party cookies (used 
> today) were not deleted, not sure they'd pose any privacy threat, like 
> 3rd party cookies.

That can be entirely automated:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/self-destructing-cookies/

Deletes the cookies and local storage that a site created when you
close the tab.

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