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It's a pain, but I just white-list third party cookies.

Wow.

You have a lot of determination! Kudos.

I do the same thing, and it really doesn't take much. I've been blocking 3rd party cookies for over a year now, and the only one I had to add was rememberthemilk, so that I could include my TODO list in a GMail widget.

It's pretty simple, really: Edit Preferences -> Privacy -> "Firefox will: Use custom settings for history" -> <uncheck> Accept third-party cookies. To add an exception, click "Exceptions..." on that same page, type the domain name, and click Allow.

You can still receive normal cookies, but now third-party sites can't track you unless the sites you're visiting are sharing data server-side.

Thank you for the info! Much appreciated.

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