I came across this article on Consumer Affairs while browsing Reddit. You can read the opinion of others in the comments section of each site to get a better understanding of the situation taking into account that the opinions expressed there are made by those who are well informed as well as those who have no idea of what they’re talking about.
Mozilla has announced that in future iterations of the Mozilla Firefox Browser it will have third party cookies blocked by default. In this article it talks about how that may hurt small internet businesses that rely on traffic and advertisements to gain revenue. I don’t know how it all works so I don’t have an opinion on whether it’s good or bad yet. It’s an interesting read and a different perspective on the role of cookies as opposed to what we have discussed in class.
Thoughts?
Since you don’t have an opionion on this, I’m not really sure what your trying to ask us. However, I don’t think Mozilla should block all third party cookies for the simple fact that some people want to see everything thats coming to them and others go to their own personal setting in their browsers and turn off the cookies setting. It’s not really something to have a debate about I think this article is pretty straight foward on what Mozilla wants to do to control their users.