EnronHaliburton2004's Journal: 3rd party cookies being set during Google Searches?

I noticed a change in when using Google to search. When I receive the Google search results page, one of the advertising sites tries to set a cookie on my machine. This has happened with eBay (since they advertise on just about every page), and a few other groups.

- Turn on cookie detection
- Click on the following link: http://www.google.com/search?q=dynamic+dns
- dyndns.org tries to set a cookie

I just throught it was wierd. Maybe this was happening before, and I didn't notice it, or I was blocking third party cookies.

I just thought it was interesting.

"Interesting"

[Jeremiah Cornelius]

Like the Panopticon is "interesting".

Firefox, as always

[frankie]

Preferences -> Privacy -> Cookies -> Allow sites to set cookies -> for the originating web site only.

Problem solved. I just wish Mozilla.org would turn that on by default.

Re:Firefox, as always

[song-of-the-pogo]

actually, i recently began noticing the same thing as EnronHaliburton2004 and my cookie handling settings in firefox are, in fact, set as you describe. i think Morosoph, below, has probably got the right idea (google prefetching). this coincides roughly with when i began noticing the cookie prompts. so ... what would i change in about:config? network.prefetch-next? i'll give that a try.

Google Prefetching

[Morosoph]

See http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/03/31/132 236 [slashdot.org]

Being prefetched, the page fetched sets its cookies... I'm sure that you can fix this in your about:config (if you want to disable this). It's not a third party cookie; it's a second party cookie (ie. that for the site) for a page that you cannot see yet.