Everyone Here Should Sign This Petition

[Luke]

14 million Firefox users already block ads.

 

[JLogan]

14 million Firefox users already block ads.

Okay, people block ads. What's your point?

There will always be a way to block ads, and people will. But there are people out there that don't mind ads, and aren't looking for ways to block ads. Also, you're forgetting about a whole group of people who have no idea of what a cookie is. If they want to block ads or cookies, then they will find a way. But there is no reason for Mozilla to be blocking third party cookies out-of-the-box, because a lot of people won't even know what's going on in the background. It harms website owners more than it helps the users.

 

[Luke]

Okay, so I tried a test. I deleted all my cookies in Chrome (since I don't use it (don't want to loose my Firefox Cookies)) and went on five websites:

http://forumpromotion.net
http://www.cnet.com
http://www.techmeme.com
http://www.google.com
http://www.news.google.com

I got 135 cookies from all those sites. Most weren't even from the site I visited, and were just third party cookies. ForumPromotion.net gave me 10 of those 135 cookies and one site which was a third party site gave me 21 cookies (FOR ONE PAGE VIEW). Now tell me why I shouldn't be worried about getting tracked, because these websites are completely irrelevant to those five sites and are third party websites putting cookies on my computer.

So I tried again. Pressed the block all third party cookies option in Chrome, and let's see how many I get now. 54 cookies and guess what, they were all from the sites I visited, instead of random websites tracking me for no reason at all.

It's obvious why people have been asking for Firefox to have this feature, because in just five loads of a website I got 135 cookies with third party off and with it on I only got 54.

 

[Sam]

Those cookies are important to sites such as my charity site: http://thebookstore.co.nz. Blocking cookies will hurt the amount of sales attributed to the project. I have also discovered that using adblock on the site entirely prevents the commission being generated (I think). And here was me trying to do some good.

 

[Luke]

Why do you use cookies? Sessions are a bit more secure as they're not on the clients computer where they can edit them.

 

[Sam]

Why do you use cookies? Sessions are a bit more secure as they're not on the clients computer where they can edit them.

BookDepository uses cookies, not me. 😉

 

[R44]

Why do you use cookies? Sessions are a bit more secure as they're not on the clients computer where they can edit them.

Sessions also expire faster and require the user login while they're using the site. Most normal computer users would not know how to decode the cookie.