Question about 3rd party cookies.

[madfloridian]

I have never come across problem like this before.

I was going to subscribe to a newspaper online only. The very first window that opened said that I had to enable 3rd party cookies or get a browser other than Firefox.

After some research I had not bothered to do before...I found that Firefox last year I think disabled 3rd party cookies by default. I also found that IE11 at Moderate Security has them enabled except it blocks those without a "compact privacy policy" and those who try to contact without permission.

Turns out after discussion with the newspaper online help....it means just that. If I want to use Firefox, my preferred browser, I must enable 3rd party cookies. Otherwise I must subscribe using another browser and not use Firefox to read the paper online.

Been using FF for years, subscribe to a couple of magazines online and one newspaper. Never ran into this problem before.

Have I been taught wrong about computer use? I have always been told do not enable 3rd party cookies.

[TygrBright]

1. You probably don't need to enable ALL third-party cookies.

Just whitelist the site you want to subscribe to.

helpfully,
Bright

[DavidG_WI]

2. You have a few options

The first is telling the site just how large, where, how far and ho hard they shove it and take your buisness elsewhere.

The 2nd is use a script or ad blocker to identify the warning script and block it

The 3rd whitelist option above, but only loading that site in private browsing mode

The 4th is install Firefox Aurora or Nightly and set that to private browsing mode only to browse sites like this

These sites need to get over themselves, its already been shown how cheap a completely ad free internet would be http://news.slashdot.org/story/14/08/21/1320251/study-ad-free-internet-would-cost-everyone-230-a-year