Comments on: Will Microsoft IE8 Block Ads and Affiliate Cookies by Default?

By: sridhar

sridhar — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 14:43:25 +0000

Well if MSFT wishes to further compete with Google, Yahoo and AOL then they need to further endear themselves to advertisers. This would certainly not be viewed well by advertisers. If I controlled a large ad budget and was running on any MSN property (which I likely would be) I’d pull the plug and I am sure many others would as well.

By: sridhar

sridhar — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 14:41:57 +0000

It will be interesting to see if IE 8 ships with this turned on. From what I can tell MS still has a lot of work to do before IE 8 is production ready.

By: robert

robert — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 02:00:10 +0000

By: Linda Buquet

Linda Buquet — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 03:13:14 +0000

Thanks for commenting Jeremy. I sure hope they don’t block by default.

My forum admin just told me Beta 2 is ready end of August. He’s a browser nut so I’m pretty sure he’s going to test and let us know.

By: Jeremy Palmer

Jeremy Palmer — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 23:27:22 +0000

It will be interesting to see if IE 8 ships with this turned on. From what I can tell MS still has a lot of work to do before IE 8 is production ready.

Knowing MS they’ll probably block all third party cookies that don’t come from their own ad networks….