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Re:Container Tabs by hackuser on Saturday January 21, 2017 @06:21PM (#13452673)
I'm glad Firefox is doing this, but ...

> Blocking third-party cookies can break some site that rely on third-party resources

Can anyone name sites that require them?

As someone who defaults to deny all cookies and manually enables every one my browser accepts, I don't think I've found a site that requires 3rd-party cookies. Few sites require cookies unless you login or have shopping cart.

Of course, that's anecdotal. Maybe I just don't visit certain categories of sites and don't encounter them.

Re:Container Tabs by sleavey on Sunday January 22, 2017 @07:11AM (#13454843)
StackOverflow, sadly. Their Javascript requires some off site cookies to allow for their cross domain user account stuff. Not enabling third party cookies on the StackExchange sites leads to broken pages.
Re:Container Tabs by untoreh on Sunday January 22, 2017 @08:33AM (#13455110)
Wouldn't that be the case for any site using sso?
Re:Container Tabs by sleavey on Sunday January 22, 2017 @09:22AM (#13455268)
Yes, though there are some ways around this. You could send the user to another domain to sign in using a unique request ID that identifies the user. After authenticating this unique ID can be communicated back to the first site to show the user has authenticated, and a cookie could keep the session information. That wouldn't give a seemless sign-in on every site, though - you'd need one cookie (and one sign-in) per domain.

The other way is to have all StackExchange sites be subdomains of stackexchange.com - which is how the designers of the web intended it to be, I think.

Re:Container Tabs by biggerfisch on Saturday January 21, 2017 @09:31PM (#13453263)
My university uses Piazza often as a forum, linked in through our course management site, Canvas. If you don't have 3rd party cookies, it used to just not work, but not it redirects you into opening a new tab/window for Piazza. It's still annoying and would be nice to have it right there in Canvas
Re:Container Tabs by driverdan on Saturday January 21, 2017 @11:03PM (#13453529)
I've been blocking 3rd party cookies for years. I think I've seen less than five sites break.
Re:Container Tabs by kuschku on Sunday January 22, 2017 @08:00AM (#13454985)
Google.

The entire notification center, cross-site hangouts chat, etc all requires third-party cookies.

Re:Container Tabs by ukyrgf on Sunday January 22, 2017 @01:51AM (#13454014)
hbogo.com relies on third party cookies from my cable company.
Re:Container Tabs by baraah on Saturday January 21, 2017 @07:03PM (#13452823)
I think I remember allowing them to watch Thursday Night Football on Twitter. I can't find anything about third-party cookies and tnf.twitter.com on Google though.
Re:Container Tabs by toyg on Sunday January 22, 2017 @09:06AM (#13455227)
Quidco.com and similar referral-promotion sites.
Re:Container Tabs by g4k on Sunday January 22, 2017 @06:31AM (#13454747)
The Shopify plugins from Bold use them.