Google says once third-party cookies are toast, Chrome won't help ad networks track individuals around the web

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Google says once third-party cookies are toast, Chrome won't help ad networks track individuals around the web

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Google says once third-party cookies are toast, Chrome won't help ad networks track individuals around the web
The Register

Summary: It's too easy to block 3rd party cookies, and other browsers are doing it by default, so Google will introduce new cutting edge methods of privacy violation for themselves but not competitors.

OK a little editorializing there. Technical details at link.

Note: You already can block 3rd party cookies in Chrome (and Slimjet), but must do so explicitly in the settings.

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Re: Google says once third-party cookies are toast, Chrome won't help ad networks track individuals around the web

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Update:

Google has second thoughts about cutting cookies, so serves up CHIPs
The Register
Last week, third-party cookies received a stay of execution from Google that will allow them to survive until late 2023 – almost two years beyond their previously declared decommission date. But the search-ads-and-apps biz is already planning a resurrection of sorts because third-party cookies are just too useful.

The Chocolate Factory envisions a lesser form of third-party cookie, one that in theory won't be used for tracking but will be able to support other more acceptable use cases. Google software engineer Dylan Cutler and engineering manager Kaustubha Govind call their confection "partitioned cookies" in a Web Platform Incubator Community Group proposal called "CHIPs."

Cookies are files that web applications can set in web browsers to store data. They have legitimate uses, like storing data related to the state of the application (e.g. whether you're logged in), and they can also be used for tracking people across websites.

Third-party cookies – set by scripts that interact with third-party servers – track people by storing a value on one website and then reading that value on another website that implements a similar third-party script. The third-party service in this case then knows all the websites running their script that were visited by the tracked individual.

That's the sort of privacy-invading behavior that led browser makers like Apple, Brave, Mozilla, and others to block third-party cookies by default. But doing so has created problems by interfering with applications that rely on third-party cookies to deliver services across domain contexts.

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