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So Disqus has not been working for me for some time, and they finally, handily, added a little notification that it's due to third party cookies being blocked. Great, I said, let's take care of that.

So I added an exception for disqus.com to Chrome's preferences, but it does not seem to be working. I did this vis Preferences -> Advanced -> Content Settings -> Manage Exceptions, where I have added an 'allow' exception for disqus.com. I have third-party cookies otherwise blocked.

Disqus still doesn't work, though, giving me the same error on every site that it's unable to work with third party cookies. The error persists even if I go to disqus.com and login, then revisit a site.

Why might disqus be failing here?

bhuga
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The reason is that you have to tell Chrome to allow 3rd party cookies for subdomains of disqus.com as well. So just set the exception to this instead: [*.]disqus.com.

Rob Flaherty
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    I have done this. Chrome auto-sets [*.]disqus.com to disqus.com. – bhuga Jun 04 '12 at 15:12
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    Did you make sure to include the brackets? Without them Chrome resets the entry to disqus.com. http://cl.ly/2x2l1e0X322J001C0P3Q – Rob Flaherty Jun 14 '12 at 18:36
  • I did. My version believes this is invalid, and auto-corrects it to disqus.com. http://cl.ly/0m3Y0B082M1Q0m1g3c2X – bhuga Jun 15 '12 at 18:54
  • Thanks. That actually worked. I am on chrome 20.X stable / Win7. @bhuga Looks like your on mac, might be an bug on the os x build of chrome. – droidgren Jun 27 '12 at 19:03
  • I've had this problem since at least chrome 18, and the problem persists with a 20.X build :/ – bhuga Jun 28 '12 at 20:04
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    [*.]disqus.com for Chrome on Mac version 23.0.1271.64 is working for me (whereas plain disqus.com did not) – levis501 Nov 13 '12 at 13:04
  • Working here, thank you!! :) – grilix Mar 05 '13 at 13:31
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Disqus requires you to accept third party cookies. If you want to use it, you have to turn them on and take your chances with the bad guys who use them for nefarious purposes.

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