Ask HN: Why Google cookies are exempted when blocking third-party cookies?

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5 years ago

I disabled third-party cookies option in my chrome browser and yet cookies are being set from google.com and accounts.google.com domain to other sites like upwork.com.

see screenshot: https://i.imgur.com/zEm2r4Y.png

To see for yourself, disable third party cookies in chrome browser -> open upwork.com -> see cookies info.

As per my understanding third-party cookies are those created by domains other than the one the user is visiting at the time. So, why google.com domain cookies are being set on upwork.com?

Update: This issue doesn't happen in Firefox.

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