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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 (gizmodo.com)

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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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[–] Substance_P@lemmy.world 72 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (10 children)

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.

[–] Buffalox@lemmy.world 43 points 10 months ago (5 children)

that sounds a lot like unfair competition, to a degree that it is highly illegal in most countries.

[–] LWD@lemm.ee 4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

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[–] carl_dungeon@lemmy.world 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Chromium is open source but isn’t chrome a closed source down stream project? Kinda like how Google’s RCS is in no way open despite all their BS ads bitching about iMessage?

[–] LWD@lemm.ee 9 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

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[–] raldone01@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

Privacy Sandbox so the privacy doesn't get out. 😃

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