-<p>In addition to ad brokers, social media sites discovered they could get in on the action. A few years ago, the major social media sites
- like Facebook and Twitter convinced a large number of websites that it would be in there best interest to place little social media
- icons on their pages. These are not just images. They contain <a href="https://developers.facebook.com/docs/plugins/like-button/">imbedded code</a> that
- links back to the social media site, and, among other things, loads a third-party cookie on the device. These cookies are placed even if the user does
- not have an account with the social media platform. Over time, companies like Facebook (which also run an ad network) have built up quite a large number
- of detailed profiles about people who have <a href="http://www.theverge.com/2016/5/27/11795248/facebook-ad-network-non-users-cookies-plug-ins">never even
- created an account on their site</a>.</p>
+ <p>Third-party cookies are set by portions of a website that are loaded from servers different from the URL at the top of the page.
+ There is no good reason to ever enable third-party cookies. Privacy Browser 3.8 removed the option, and even Google is planning to
+ <a href="https://www.theverge.com/2020/1/14/21064698/google-third-party-cookies-chrome-two-years-privacy-safari-firefox">disable them in the future</a>.</p>