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I've been reading a lot about the "evils" of third-party cookies a lot recently. I disabled them and haven't noticed many changes.
I have an adblocker, and google is told to not use my information in ads (so when I am logged into my google account, I just see generic ads instead of targeted ones).
I've also read that google uses your browsing history, etc to give you better search results. When I click the button in chrome that says "The following cookies have been blocked on this page", I see a google cookie. That means that google isn't able to get as much info on me.
So, because I have ad tracking turned off, does having third-party cookies disabled do anything?
Jon
Posted 2013-10-01T23:37:37.473
Reputation: 8 089
You've only opted out of google's tracking . . . Different banner ad networks could have third-party cookies, as could sites that use third-party sites to gather stats (e.g. sites like google analytics), various page widgets (e.g. discussion threads that aren't hosted locally), etc. – ernie – 2013-10-01T23:55:54.427
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– happy_soil – 2013-10-02T07:57:04.613@ernie Alright, cool. Thanks for posting that. If you want to post it as a question I'll mark it as an answer. – Jon – 2013-10-02T15:56:06.390