Google Just Disabled Cookies for 30 Million Chrome Users. Here’s How to Tell If You’re One of Them | It’s the beginning of the end in Google’s plan to kill cookies forever::It’s the beginning of the end in Google’s plan to kill cookies forever.
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third party cookies != cookies
Unless they’ve invented a stateful http, cookies aren’t going anywhere.
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Google should not be setting standards on something that is supposed to be open. Google should be getting dismantled and divided into individual companies that would fail without the surveillance apparatus that is the real product, which is why it will never happen and why they’re given unchecked power
Not really a win for the casual web user - What Google will stop doing is selling web ads targeted to individual users’ browsing habits, and its Chrome browser will no longer allow cookies that collect that data for the means of selling to third party advertisers.
Meanwhile, Google will still track and target users on mobile devices, and it will still target ads to users based on their behavior on its own platforms, which make up the majority of its revenue and won’t be affected by the change.
Ad companies that rely on cookies will simply have to find another way to target users.
Aka pay google instead of getting that info for free
that sounds a lot like unfair competition, to a degree that it is highly illegal in most countries.
Only where non-corrupt politicians agree to enforce the law.
So. Yknow.
Sure is nice of Google to change things for the better of the world. I’m sure they stand to gain nothing from this. < /sarcasm>
Firefox did this 4 years ago and didn’t replace them with an alternative tracking method.