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Does anyone know if organisations are lobbying to have this security precaution overturned or minimised?
We are receiving complaints from potential affiliates to say our software isn't working but it is actually IEx6 rejecting the cookies until it is disabled manually. Most people don't know how to do this.
With thanks.
Microsoft reference [microsoft.com]
By default, Internet Explorer 6 opts me out of receiving cookies from third party sites that don’t have a compact privacy policy available. The browser disallows third party cookies that use personally identifiable information without asking. Additionally, first party cookies that use personally identifiable information without implicit consent are restricted. The P3P or Platform for Privacy Preferences is the standards model which determines the parameters for acceptability of cookies.
One concern that comes to mind is when people shop our ecommerce site. We need to send cookies so that we can add items to thier shopping carts. Unless we tag them, each time they add an item, they are assigned a new shopper id.
I would have a hard time believing that Microsoft would not be allowing these cookies to be added. That would put a big damper on ecommerce in general.
>I would have a hard time believing that Microsoft would not be allowing these cookies to be added. That would put a big damper on ecommerce in general.
It's a done deal. Though I think the default setting only raises an alert box the first time and then the red "minus" icon in the task bar thereafter.
Make sure all your cookies are sent from the page/domain you want to set. Also, do the p3p thing.
No wonder we have been having problems with our sites!
