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OK, so how do I opt out of their hacky workarounds?

This is worse because I turn off third party cookies in Firefox. On an iPhone, I would have no way to turn off third party cookies (the ones that are submitted using the hack).

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1) Apple should make the default be the more permissive policy that all other major browsers have adopted. 2) They should lock down their implementation of the 'Sites I visit' policy to prevent the workaround 3) Users who opt-in for the stricter policy actually get it, but they should realize when their CHOICE breaks any features which rely on 3rd party cookies.

Ads are features?

Ask Apple to patch their browser to not treat iframes the way they do now? And hope that weird things don't break, as that's how probably many different things operate.

Some Google engineers on the Chromium team already patched webkit to fix this loophole back in August:

http://trac.webkit.org/changeset/92142

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