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Re:Firefox Send: Free encrypted file transfer service by Quarrelsome on Tuesday March 12, 2019 @12:01PM (#19369515)
of all of the people you could be mad at about privacy you choose Mozilla to be mad at?
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Re:Firefox Send: Free encrypted file transfer service by Tepix on Tuesday March 12, 2019 @12:15PM (#19369728)
If Mozilla cares so much about privacy, why don't they disable 3rd party cookies by default like Apple does? That would make a huge difference and while it may break a few sites (i use this setting since a decade or so and have encountered very few), if Apple is OK with that, why shouldn't Mozilla be ok?

I'll tell you why: Because they depend on Google's money.

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Re:Firefox Send: Free encrypted file transfer service by Quarrelsome on Tuesday March 12, 2019 @12:21PM (#19369814)
> why don't they disable 3rd party cookies by default like Apple does?

Its interesting you bring this up because of all the browsers ONLY Apple does that and the level of headache that gave me recently suggests part of the reason why. Fundamentally it breaks the default implementation of ASP.NET session state which when combined with first-pass implementations of OAuth results in infinite authentication loops when hosting other sites in IFRAMEs.

Maybe that's part of the reason why?

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