How to protect from Google's new cookie policy?
Logging in to check a googledoc today I discovered to my dismay that Google now blocks logging in to view docs. unless browser settings are altered to accept third party 'cookies', not just Google's own. One of the things that's kept me relying on Firefox, even though Safari, e.g., is sometimes faster, is the exquisite control Ffx. offers over cookie management. This policy seems like a clear attempt in G's part to undermine that. If it becomes the norm online (as Google policies often do), it will block the use of cookie protections all over the internet. Is Mozilla taking any steps to help users work around this outrageous new policy?
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You could find out what site's third party cookies are needed and make exceptions to allow those.
Note that Firefox has a setting to allow third-party cookies only from visited domains.
- Firefox > Preferences > Privacy > Firefox will: "Use custom settings for history"
You can set the network.cookie.thirdparty.sessionOnly pref to true on the about:config page to make third-party cookies behave as session cookies that expire when Firefox is closed.
To finitarry: How would I go about finding out what cookies Google wants me to accept??
To cor-el: This looks promising. I'll give it a try. Thanks.
Easiest is usually to allow cookies including third-party cookies and check what cookies are created and possibly create a cookie allow exception if there are problems.
Basically, you would need to experiment. Follow cor-el's suggestion about allowing third-party cookies, then try blocking those sites one by one until a problem occurs. When that happens, you know whose cookies you need to allow, and you can block all the other third-party sites.