If you get to the end of the post, it notes that two Google engineers were actually responsible for patching the loophole in webkit that allows storing third-party cookies after a form submission:
But if you try to read the previous 99% of the blog post you'll see how some shady advertising companies perpetually try to game the system without any user consent.
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[ 4.2 ms ] story [ 26.1 ms ] threadhttp://trac.webkit.org/changeset/92142
http://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/about/people/jonathan-mayer
and
https://www.stanford.edu/~jmayer/
but I can't find anything he wrote related to the issue of this particular news item. Anybody knows?
He also links to the EFF coverage: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2012/02/time-make-amends-googl...