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Comment by lsh123 | Hacker News Reader

"It is also important to remember that if you log into services like Google and Facebook over Tor, you will be sacrificing your anonymity to those services."

It is important to note that both Google and FB can track you on 3rd party websites through things like "Like" button. Consider disabling 3rd party cookies completely or using plugins like Ghostery.

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I've been browsing the internet for 15 years with 3rd-party cookies disabled.

I never had ANY problems with any website - no idea if there would have been more functionality with 3rd-party cookies enabled. But then again, how can functionality depend on THIRD parties?

Also activated the setting for my girlfriend years ago, no complaints so far.

This feature should really be the default for any browser and any user. Too bad Android Chrome doesn't have such a setting. Too bad for Google I'll use something else instead.

Do things like Disqus work?

Safari has always shipped blocking third party cookies by default; just about everything works with it. I remember there used to be some nasty trickery to make iFrame resident Facebook games work, but that was about it.

> like Ghostery

Ghostery is great but lacking in some respects, check out the https://www.eff.org/privacybadger project

I am actually running both of them side-by-side (together with ABP and a few other plugins). So far, I find Ghostery to be blocking more than Privacy Badger does.

I have always wondered about that. What if I completely switch all my network traffic to Tor continue using all the services as I currently do? What are the implications involved here?

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