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A comment on Firefox: Why we won’t enable Do-Not-Track by default.

Re:Firefox: Why we won’t enable Do-Not-Track by default by 616c on Thursday March 21, 2013 @02:38AM (#5413340)
Because it breaks websites. It blocked cookies for me on an FRAME (yes, I know) for a MasterCard SecureCode transaction for personal stuff on a local business site, and the website uses cookies to pass from one server to another and the transactions failed the following day when I enabled Do Not Track. Even companies like MasterCard cannot function with it enabled, how do we push smaller companies to get it done?
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Re:Firefox: Why we won’t enable Do-Not-Track by default by KNoureen on Thursday March 21, 2013 @03:45AM (#5413607)
Are you trolling us? DnT is a HTTP header sent by the browser, it does not block or delete cookies.

On another note, cookies are domain specific, which means that a cookie can't be accessed by another domain.

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