Third party cookies...how do they work?

[Donald Canton]

Hi,

I just changed my browser settings to override automatic cookie
handling and block all third party cookies. Now I'm curious. How are
third party cookies allowed in the first place? I thought only the
domain of the web site visited could store and retrieve cookies?

-dc

 

[dev]

Donald Canton said:

I just changed my browser settings to override automatic cookie
handling and block all third party cookies. Now I'm curious. How are
third party cookies allowed in the first place? I thought only the
domain of the web site visited could store and retrieve cookies?

http://www.privacyfoundation.org/resources/montulli.asp

Interesting reading, from the creator of Cookies.