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Google makes abrupt U-turn by dropping plan to remove ad-tracking cookies on Chrome browser(apnews.com)

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Google is dropping plans to eliminate cookies from its Chrome web browser, making a sudden U-turn on four years of work to phase out a technology that helps businesses tracks users online.

The company had been working on retiring third-party cookies, which are snippets of code that log user information, as part of an effort to overhaul user privacy options on Chrome. But the proposal, also known as Privacy Sandbox, had instilled fears in the online advertising industry that any replacement technology would leave even less room for online ad rivals.

In a blog post on Monday, Google said it decided to abandon the plan after considering the impact of the changes on publishers, advertisers and “everyone involved in online advertising.”

The U.K.'s primary competition regulator, which has been involved in oversight of the Privacy Sandbox project, said Google will, instead, give users the option to block or allow third-party cookies on the browser.

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9point6@lemmy.world
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Way to go completely missing the point, Associated Press.

You’re supposed to be neutral, yet this is the biggest load of corporate cock gargling I’ve ever read

Edit: for context, what they were pushing as a replacement was way worse

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Unruffled [he/him]@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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Melody Fwygon@lemmy.one
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This is Google’s way of throwing a fit. They’ve been thwarted at every attempt to replace cookies with something WAY MORE creepy and WORSE by privacy advocates.

They’re quickly realizing that people will not give advertisers free reign anymore.

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Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world
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Google said it decided to abandon the plan after considering the impact of the changes on publishers, advertisers and “everyone involved in online advertising.”

This is like a landlord scrapping plans to add curtains or blinds after considering the impact on peeping Toms and forgoing a lock on the back door after consulting with burglars.

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gedaliyah@lemmy.worldM
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No, please tell me more about how my privacy will affect advertisers.

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Proddedcow@fedia.io
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But, Google promised us!
I am shocked.

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