HTML5 video/audio player on mobile Safari (iOS 7 & iOS 10) excludes cookies

Question

I have noticed that the HTML5 video/audio player (AppleCoreMedia) on mobile Safari on iOS 7 excludes all cookies, even first-party cookies. Not even sessions cookies are inc

Answer 1

The bug continues to exists in iOS 7.1

Obviously Apple is ignoring this bug and I can not understand why since it affects so many users.

I have been running some tests on a iOS 7.1 device that had this problem and it is pretty clear that the bug is related to the private browsing feature. Turning private browsing on and then off fixes the problem on the device.