»Q« wrote:
In <news:i5udnddvg6jvvxbjnz2dnuu7-qmdn...@mozilla.org>,
"Paul B. Gallagher" <pau...@pbgdashtranslations.com> wrote:
This evening, I cleared all private data (including cache and
cookies), and then visited nhl.com.
Immediately after aborting their troublesome javascript,* I inspected
my cookies and discovered that google.com had set a cookie.
Now, my cookie policy at Edit | Preferences | Privacy & Security |
Cookies is "Allow cookies for the originating website only (no
third-party cookies)."
So how was Google able to set a cookie if I never visited their site?
My first guess is that it's the Google "safebrowsing" cookie. ...
I don't think so. I tested as follows:
From the last surviving browser window, clear private data (includes
cookies and cache). Close the browser window. Open a fresh browser
window, which by pref opens a blank page. Check cookies, nothing. Go to
home page (my company website, which does not set cookies). Check
cookies, nothing. Note that I have both safe browsing options enabled at
Edit | Preferences | Privacy & Security.
I therefore conclude that Google is not setting a cookie on browser
startup, and it's not setting one in order to evaluate whether my
company website is or is not dangerous.
The Google cookie I get from nhl.com is called "NID," it's 131
characters of alphanumeric soup, and it varies from visit to visit.
It's bad enough that they update their dossier on me when I visit
their own sites, do they have to do it everywhere else, too?\
More to the point, how can I set SeaMonkey to do as it says and block
third-party cookies?
If my guess is right, turning off the safebrowsing features should do
it. I dunno where they are in the SM UI.
OK, let's try that...
Nope, didn't change a thing. Google set another cookie called "NID" 131
characters long.
--
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Paul B. Gallagher
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