What is the default for third party cookies in browsers?

Chrome and Safari deny - IE, Firefox and Opera allow?

[penders]

Wondering what the default settings are for third party cookies in the major browsers.

AFAIK I am testing with default settings and I see that both Safari and Chrome block third part cookies, the other 3 browsers mentioned allow them. With Chrome I think this might be a more recent option as I thought it previously stated 'Restrict third party cookies' (or something like that), but I have seen comments that this still allowed third party cookies to some extent.

What do you see?

[drhowarddrfine]

This is user settable to allow/block 3rd party cookies.

[penders]

Yes, I realise this is configurable by the end user, but I'm just wondering what the default browser setting for third party cookies is? Most users don't tend to change settings within their browser, and if a setting such as this is off by default, I can't imagine many users turning it back on. Certainly Chrome has an increasing browser share. If all browsers had third party cookies disabled by default then cross domain user tracking / advertising would be considerably less popular!

[tedster]

Your opening post sums it up. IE, FF and Opera all allow 3rd party cookies by default, Safari does not - see [apple.com...]

According to [google.com...] "All cookies are allowed by default" - not surprising since Google now owns DoubleClick ;)

[penders]

Thanks for the info tedster. I guess I must have changed Chrome at some point to prevent third party cookies - have since checked on another machine and they are enabled.