By default, Google Chrome allows third party cookies. It can be disabled. Regards,
Michael B. Smith Consultant and Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com -----Original Message----- From: Ben Scott [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Monday, August 02, 2010 7:00 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: WSJ: MSFT reduced IE security to protect ad revenue "Microsoft Quashed Effort to Boost Online Privacy" by Nick Wingfield, Wall Street Journal (2 Aug 2010) http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703467304575383530439838568.html Internet Explorer's handling of cookies hasn't really changed in over a decade. The WSJ is claiming the IE development team actually wanted to improve things, but management axed it. Microsoft makes a lot of money from Internet advertising. Management didn't want to potentially impact that revenue stream, so they blocked some privacy features from IE. As far as I know, Firefox accepts third-party cookies by default, too. I wonder why *they* don't do anything about it. I find a bug for it[1] but it's been inactive for over a year. [1] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=324397 Anyone know about Apple Safari and Google Chrome in this area? GOOG's got the same conflict-of-interest MSFT has here. -- Ben ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
