How to Disable Third-Party Cookies in Chrome and Firefox


Posted March 2, 2015 by frances

There are several third party cookies which can monitor your online activity and to stop them there are some steps that you should follow to disable third party cookies.

 
While browsing you have much knowledge about the internet and also about the reality that there are several websites which you visit and they contains some pieces of information which are in the form of cookies. Hwoever cookies are defined as small pieces of useful data that are generally used for monitoring user’s online activity and it also store the information like logon details, shopping cart items and even record and transfer the user’s browsing history.

You will notice that there are also third party cookies that even track user’s online activity even that time when they are not visiting the particular site. Therefore if you are really worried about your privacy then you should look forward to solve such situation. However some of the steps are given below that can help you in disabling third party cookies in Firefox and in Chrome.
In fact there are two types of cookies among which the first party cookies are the cookies that are stored in website which users visit and third party cookies are meant to be none but are the cookies whose domains vary from the site you are visiting. Although, the web browser treat the first and third party cookies differently and therefore, it will be easy to disable third party cookies.

However there are different-different options for both Chrome and for Firefox to disable third-party cookies and for that you have to follow the steps.

Disable third-party cookies in Chrome

To disable third party cookies is very much easy and also straightforward. You have to first hit on the menu icon that is in the upper right corner and after that select the “settings” option from the list.

Disable third-party cookies in Firefox

If you want to disable third party cookies in Firefox browser then you have to hit on the menu icon and after that select “option” button so that you can open the Firefox options window.

After you have opened the window, specify the “privacy” tab and then select the option “Use custom settings for history” from the drop-down menu just next to the wording “Firefox will” under the history section.

See more on: http://www.keepbrowsersafe.com/disable-third-party-cookies-chrome-firefox
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Last Updated March 2, 2015