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Re:Google delays third-party cookie demise yet again by DanielHB on Wednesday April 24, 2024 @09:20AM (#40144056)
That seems a bit too conspiracy theorist, especially considering most people have 3rd party cookies on and teams has been around for a long time now (I assume before Google announced removing 3rd party cookies)

I think the answer is more banal in that some of their oauth flow runs in a different domain from the main application. I think this is tied to wanting to reuse part of oauth flow in the desktop application.

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Re:Google delays third-party cookie demise yet again by jeltz on Wednesday April 24, 2024 @09:25AM (#40144111)
The auth flow for Teams has always been very buggy so that is a good guess.
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Re:Google delays third-party cookie demise yet again by DanielHB on Wednesday April 24, 2024 @09:35AM (#40144215)
The funny thing is that they actually have a specific error message for this asking you to enable 3rd party cookies. I guess it is easier than fixing the issue.
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Re:Google delays third-party cookie demise yet again by datadrivenangel on Wednesday April 24, 2024 @09:51AM (#40144432)
Microsoft auth flows are such a dumpster fire that it makes me curious about how it got to be that way.
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Re:Google delays third-party cookie demise yet again by jjav on Wednesday April 24, 2024 @07:45PM (#40151369)
> That seems a bit too conspiracy theorist

Remember "DOS Isn’t Done Until Lotus Won’t Run"?

That large companies do self-serving underhanded tricks is not a conspiracy, just yet another Monday in the office.

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