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Other => Other => Topic started by: moro on December 31, 2010, 03:51:26 AM

Title: third-party?
Post by: moro on December 31, 2010, 03:51:26 AM

what is third-party ???
I see the expression : third-party cookies - third-party sites ....
i use google , I saw a lot of information , not concentrated
any hlp

Title: Re: third-party?
Post by: BC_Programmer on December 31, 2010, 05:12:42 AM

First party: Original Manufacturer/developer
Second party: not original, but affiliated with the first party
Third Party: unrelated to the first party

For example, in the case of Windows, First Party would be Microsoft. Second party would be a company that MS contracted out, or licensed software from; for example, in the context of XP and later Executive software can be considered second party because they wrote the disk defragmenter that Microsoft uses.

Third Party is pretty much everything else.

This applies to any number of other things; for example, if a game or program supports "mods" or "plugins" and the creator creates some plugins, their plugins would be "first-party" and so on.

Title: Re: third-party?
Post by: moro on December 31, 2010, 07:48:37 AM

Thank you BC_Programmer
It is clear  :)

Title: Re: third-party?
Post by: Smilence on January 06, 2011, 02:56:29 AM

BC_Programmer's explanation is very informative. I didn't know what is second party until I saw your explanation. Thanks for the reply.