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Another thing to note:
Firefox has had ‘private browsing’ for quite some time with an addon.. So this will stop cookies and any other browsing information from storage.
Apple’s browser (can’t come up with the name right now… Safari?)… Anyway, it has had ‘Private Browsing’ for a long time too.
Just an FYI
Third party cookies have been an issue with IE for years.
@Dominique 174749 wrote:
Third party cookies have been an issue with IE for years.
haha, its more like IE has had issues for years. cookies is only the tip of the iceberg. :tongue:
Since i.e. 7 there have been problems with cross domain cookie setting in default security settings. So if affsite.com wanted to set cookies on it’s casino page casinopage.com those wouldn’t have gone through in IE7 unless you went through a painful work around.
Chrome and IE8 take it to a whole new level they will essentially render ALL COOKIES useless when their privacy/anti-porn tab is activated. I think in IE8 it is a per browser session thing where all sites in the open browser would be affected. Whereas in Chrome it would be per tab you apply the privacy to (so not quite as bad). So if anything affs in “vice” related industries would be hit hardest i.e. gambling, porn etc. Because that is where people will be most likely to activate these options.
I can’t see this war between Google and Microsoft being good for us affiliates
I can’t see why simultaneously their development people had the stroke of genius to allow users to get rid of all their cookies or stop accepting them. That will surely have a big impact. It’s destroying the basis of affiliate marketing. I don’t claim this is a default setting I am just saying that even giving more savvy users the ability to implement 0 tracking pisses me off.
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Chrome has three cookie settings
Default – accept all cookies
Optional – Block 3rd party cookies
Optional – Block all cookiesI really like the new browser but it’s hard to say what this whole cookies thing will do. I can’t see many people turning off cookies since many websites are so dynamic these days that it would become a pain in the ass to ban some or have them turned off. I really don’t see much changing in terms of affiliates losing their business. First google has to take over the whole market which isn’t going to happen overnight as long as xp and vista machines come packaged with IE which will update to the newest IE when it can. For Mac users it will always have safari and there are too many users who don’t want to switch to new browsers like opera, firefox.
Perhaps this might put more importance on bonus codes for tracking.
Either way I love the new browser.
John
I can confirm that Chrome is “all cookie allowing” by default, if it stays the same then I don’t think many people will turn it off, or will tweak the default settings. You could do this in FF so far, and not many people used it.
But let’s see how it works in the long run.
So far I do really love Chrome.
My first impressions are good I must say. And as pointed out above, it appears you have to turn Cookies off manually. Pleased to see it renders all my sites correctly so it must be sympathetic to standards like IE – that was my biggest concern. I can see this eating up Firefox, although with Microsoft’s stranglehold on new PC’s it’ll ake longer to dent the “casual user” market.
I wouldn’t go as far as to say it will destroy the aff industry. It’s a nice attempt by both companies, but cookies seem unreplaceable at this time. You need cookies enabled to log in to any website – email, news, account, etc. So 99% of the people will leave the cookies on (as they have been doing for years).
Ive been trying it out and I really like it. All the pages are small though…Anyone know how to change this besides enlarging the text size?
I downloaded it a little while ago…….I’m loving it. It’s seems to be at least 5 times faster than Firefox, or at least for me it is.
I understand the concern about cookies but as others have voiced, I think the majority of people will leave it at the default setting, but I do wonder about the incognito option. Here is the info that is on the page when you click open a new incognito window which explains a bit about it.
“You’ve gone incognito. Pages you view in this window won’t appear in your browser history or search history, and they won’t leave other traces, like cookies, on your computer after you close the incognito window. Any files you download or bookmarks you create will be preserved, however.”
I would think the incognito option has the biggest potential to cause problems.BB28
to me that sounds like cookies will be deleted once they close the browser. So point of sale or no sale for an affiliate.
I like it too! The incognito I think the video explains that although there is no trace on your pc, websites are still able to collect info about you.
