The privacy wars are about to get a whole lot worse

Re:The privacy wars are about to get a whole lot worse by jgaosgxy on Wednesday September 07, 2016 @03:09PM (#12446201)

I always disable third-party cookies and very rarely does it break something. The most recent one I remember is logging in at the Origin website (online game store). The login form at checkout doesn't load at all without third-party cookies.

While I would love to browse the web with all security and privacy features enabled and things like JavaScript disabled, it breaks too much. The middle ground between security/privacy and user experience/convenience is different for everyone.

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Re:The privacy wars are about to get a whole lot worse by lordcorusa on Wednesday September 07, 2016 @03:37PM (#12446651)

I agree. I used to use NoScript, RequestPolicy, and BetterPrivacy, but I finally realized I was spending far more time tuning policies than I was actually using the web. And they were TOTALLY unusable by non technically inclined people.

My compromise now is to use uBlock Origin (virtually never breaks anything), HTTPS Everywhere (on rare occasion breaks a site), Self-Destructing Cookies (by design cannot break sites), and 3rd-party cookies disabled.

The only thing that banning 3rd-party cookies broke was CapitalOne360's gateway into regular CapitalOne, but they even managed to fix this in recent months.

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Re:The privacy wars are about to get a whole lot worse by hackuser on Wednesday September 07, 2016 @05:06PM (#12447685)

Try uMatrix, which combines many of those functions into one extension. It's by the same person as uBlock Origin.

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