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<blockquote data-quote="MacInWin" data-source="post: 1836874" data-attributes="member: 396914"><p>Nope. I use Ghostery and Adblock to stop ads, which is where most of those other cookies come from. The point is that the "Allow from websites I visit" ends up being bypassed by advertising, or embedded videos, or links to links to links that eventually get to where the cookie originated. So even if you select "Allow from websites I visit" the net result is that just about EVERY site you visit has links to other sites where the advertising comes from, and that ad is created and crafted so that it satisfies the "I visit" component. You said that checking that box, "should prevent these tracking sites from setting a cookie." But it doesn't, in practice. So the options are cookies or no cookies. Binary. </p><p></p><p>Now "should" it behave the way you want? Debatable, but I think, personally, it should. But in practice, you are better off blocking advertising and popups with Ghostery and AdBlockPlus, or similar. But even with those two installed and operating, I find that to do commerce over the Internet I have to allow some sites freedom to put cookies and popups in place. So I whitelist them if I know I'll be back (my bank, my credit union, my online stock advisor, etc.) and live with the resulting cookies. </p><p></p><p>So, I'm with Apple on this one. Binary. The two in the middle don't mean anything in reality.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="MacInWin, post: 1836874, member: 396914"] Nope. I use Ghostery and Adblock to stop ads, which is where most of those other cookies come from. The point is that the "Allow from websites I visit" ends up being bypassed by advertising, or embedded videos, or links to links to links that eventually get to where the cookie originated. So even if you select "Allow from websites I visit" the net result is that just about EVERY site you visit has links to other sites where the advertising comes from, and that ad is created and crafted so that it satisfies the "I visit" component. You said that checking that box, "should prevent these tracking sites from setting a cookie." But it doesn't, in practice. So the options are cookies or no cookies. Binary. Now "should" it behave the way you want? Debatable, but I think, personally, it should. But in practice, you are better off blocking advertising and popups with Ghostery and AdBlockPlus, or similar. But even with those two installed and operating, I find that to do commerce over the Internet I have to allow some sites freedom to put cookies and popups in place. So I whitelist them if I know I'll be back (my bank, my credit union, my online stock advisor, etc.) and live with the resulting cookies. So, I'm with Apple on this one. Binary. The two in the middle don't mean anything in reality. [/QUOTE]
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