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Re:Ask HN: Do you ask to use cookies or check IP? by kalleboo on Friday May 26, 2017 @05:12AM (#14422841)
Is it still only Safari that has the "from websites I visit" option? That's the most sensible one to me.
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Re:Ask HN: Do you ask to use cookies or check IP? by lewiseason on Friday May 26, 2017 @07:35AM (#14423326)
Does that mean same-domain? That basically meets the EU requirement for most tracking systems I think (where they're third party that is).

"Accept the session cookie but not the Google Analytics one."

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Re:Ask HN: Do you ask to use cookies or check IP? by kalleboo on Friday May 26, 2017 @08:27AM (#14423547)
It means it will accept cookies for other domains if you have visited the other domain explicitly before. This makes things like embedded widgets work.
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Re:Ask HN: Do you ask to use cookies or check IP? by lewiseason on Monday May 29, 2017 @05:21AM (#14438233)
Ah see, that's the opposite of what I'd want, personally at least.

The whole point imo of blocking cookies for privacy reasons is so that things like that can't track me around the web - explicitly visited or not.

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