Mozilla again postpones Firefox third-party cookie-blocking

... this time for months

Decision to use blocking blacklists and whitelists means another delay in adding auto-blocking to browser

By Gregg Keizer
June 20, 2013

Computerworld - Mozilla has effectively postponed Firefox's controversial third-party cookie-blocking policy for several months.

Yesterday, the open-source developer announced it was collaborating with a new initiative, dubbed "Cookie Clearinghouse," or CCH, launched by Stanford University's Center for Internet and Society.

"Today Mozilla is committing to work ... to develop the CCH so that browsers can use its lists to manage exceptions to a visited-based third-party cookie block," wrote Brendan Eich, Mozilla's CTO, in a post on his personal blog.

The CCH, which is headed by Alexia McDonald, director of Stanford's Center for Internet and Society -- and formerly a part-time privacy research officer at Mozilla -- will come up with a list of sites to be blocked by browsers, as well as another that includes blocking exceptions.
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