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Re:Firefox rolls out Total Cookie Protection by default to a... by pilsetnieks on Tuesday June 14, 2022 @10:25AM (#31739995)
Because Google's, Apple's and Microsoft's accounts specifically are tied to their particular browser and/or OS, not just the websites you're on.

So are Firefox accounts but they probably don't have the numbers to engage in any particularly egregious behavior.

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Re:Firefox rolls out Total Cookie Protection by default to a... by TekMol on Tuesday June 14, 2022 @10:32AM (#31740114)
What kind of mechanic are you describing? Are you saying the browser is phoning home, telling Google which sites you visit?
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Re:Firefox rolls out Total Cookie Protection by default to a... by pilsetnieks on Tuesday June 14, 2022 @10:37AM (#31740186)
Yes. You can turn it off, though, if you take Google at its word.

https://support.google.com/websearch/answer/54068?hl=en&co=G...

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Re:Firefox rolls out Total Cookie Protection by default to a... by chefandy on Tuesday June 14, 2022 @10:45AM (#31740288)
Well, Chrome obviously does if you’re ‘signed in’ to Google and haven’t turned off their sync settings… which I imagine is the most common end user path, and chrome is the most popular browser. https://www.google.com/chrome/privacy/
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Re:Firefox rolls out Total Cookie Protection by default to a... by nightpool on Tuesday June 14, 2022 @11:25AM (#31740850)
Are you saying that Google is using their control of the user agent to specifically tie a Google auth cookie to an individual third-party-context web request even when third party cookies are blocked? If so, that would be a major scandal. What evidence do you have that this is the case?
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