Privacy News Browsers have cookie and anti-tracking enforcement issues

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https://www.ghacks.net/2018/08/18/browsers-have-cookie-and-anti-tracking-enforcement-issues/#comment-4387453

Browsers have cookie and anti-tracking enforcement issues

A team of Belgian researchers from KU Leuven analyzed third-party cookie policies of seven major web browsers, 31 ad-blockers and 14 anti-tracking extensions and discovered major and minor issues in all of them.

Major issues include Microsoft Edge's unwillingness to honor its own "block only third-party cookies" setting, bypasses for Firefox's Tracking Protection feature, and use of the integrated PDF viewer in Chrome and other Chromium-based browsers for invisible tracking.

Fun fact, I tested all the exploits on Vivaldi 1.15 and Chrome 68 and no cookies where saved (due to Adguard Desktop APP).

 

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Browsers have cookie and anti-tracking enforcement issues

Fun fact, I tested all the exploits on Vivaldi 1.15 and Chrome 68 and no cookies where saved (due to Adguard Desktop APP).

Did the same test on Chrome with the AdGuard browser extension and also no cookies where saved.
It seems that uBlock Origin also protects against this issue:
So no problem when using a good adblocker like uBlock Origin or AdGuard.