Broken implementations are different from intentionally subverted ones. If FB is doing this, they deserve blame too.
The argument I was responding to seems to be that P3P is a gentleman's agreement and thus is doomed to fail. However, I expect more from Google than I would from random sites on the internet.
So Google flouting a gentleman's agreement is very different from a warez site doing it. After all, you don't expect Google to read your mail in Gmail versus the site admins of warez-mail.com reading your email. Or do you?
But it's a gentleman's agreement between Microsoft and... no one. The user didn't ask to have their cookies blocked and Google certainly didn't ask to be a part of this scheme. It's not really an agreement when only one party has agreed to it.
The argument I was responding to seems to be that P3P is a gentleman's agreement and thus is doomed to fail. However, I expect more from Google than I would from random sites on the internet.
So Google flouting a gentleman's agreement is very different from a warez site doing it. After all, you don't expect Google to read your mail in Gmail versus the site admins of warez-mail.com reading your email. Or do you?