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Firefox rolls out Total Cookie Protection by default to all desktop users worldwide | It is Firefox’s strongest privacy protection to date, confining cookies to the site where they were created (blog.mozilla.org)
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[–] ricecake@sh.itjust.works 7 points 3 weeks ago

So that's what third party cookies are. What this does is make it so that when you go to example.com and you get a Google cookie, that cookie is only associated with example.com, and your random.org Google cookie will be specific to that site.

A site will be able to use Google to track how you use their site, which is a fine and valid thing, but they or Google don't get to see how you use a different site. (Google doesn't actually share specifics, but they can see stuff like "behavior on one site led to sale on the other")