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> It’s insane that this hasn’t been the default all along across all browsers

Historically cookies weren't partitioned by site. So if you went to clear the cookies for https://publisher.example, then the browser wouldn't know whether to also clear cookies for https://other.example.

(Cookies are still not partitioned by default in Firefox; it requires turning on Total Cookie Protection)



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