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Re:Firefox Will Soon Block Third-Party Cookies by jsomethings on Saturday February 23, 2013 @07:22PM (#5272074)
Safari already blocks most third-party cookies, yet Google Analytics works in Safari. An explanation of how GA pulls it off can be found here: http://webpolicy.org/2012/02/17/safari-trackers/
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Re:Firefox Will Soon Block Third-Party Cookies by magicalist on Sunday February 24, 2013 @04:21AM (#5273534)
that looks like they're talking about doubleclick, not google analytics. GA works by setting a first party cookie, so there's no need to work around anything. https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/collection...

edit: oh, jonknee already mentioned that below.

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