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Re:Firefox to Block All 3rd Party Trackers by Default on Friday February 22, 2019 @01:06PM (#19227520)
It's not for lack of prescience. Lou Montulli (the guy who created cookies) realized that third-party cookies were being used for tracking and advertising early on and made the decision to not to break them. I think his reasoning [1] has stood up well too.

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20170421064522/http://www.montul...