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RFC6265bis: Note about double-keying. Closes #248.
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another site that contains content from the same third party, the third party
can track the user between the two sites.

Some user agents restrict how third-party cookies behave. For example, some of
these user agents refuse to send the Cookie header in third-party requests.
Others refuse to process the Set-Cookie header in responses to third-party
requests. User agents vary widely in their third-party cookie policies. This
document grants user agents wide latitude to experiment with third-party cookie
policies that balance the privacy and compatibility needs of their users.
Given this risk to user privacy, some user agents restrict how third-party
cookies behave, and those restrictions vary widly. For instance, user agents

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might block third-party cookies entirely by refusing to send Cookie headers or
process Set-Cookie headers during third-party requests. They might take a less
draconian approach by partitioning cookies based on the first-party context,
sending one set of cookies to a given third party in one first-party context,
and another to the same third party in another.

This document grants user agents wide latitude to experiment with third-party
cookie policies that balance the privacy and compatibility needs of their users.
However, this document does not endorse any particular third-party cookie
policy.

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