Reprieve: Chrome will allow tracking cookies (conditionally)

[Graybeard]

You can breath easier for a bit:

(Reuters) -Google's Chrome web browser will not fully block tracking cookies until late 2023, the Alphabet Inc company said on Thursday, delaying by nearly two years a move that has drawn antitrust concerns from competitors and regulators.

Google delays Chrome's blocking of tracking cookies to late 2023

(Reuters) -Google's Chrome web browser will not fully block tracking cookies until late 2023, the Alphabet Inc company said on Thursday, delaying by nearly two years a move that has drawn antitrust concerns from competitors and regulators. Google had wanted to bar reams of ad-personalization...

finance.yahoo.com

 

[Garpalad]

Thank you so much, this is great news.

 

[PureLander]

if Google blocks third party tracking cookies, the advertising companies will have to pay for the info they currently collect for free. Hence the Anti-Trust concerns and current business models of many companies that are in jeopardy.

- Samira

 

[Graybeard]

Cookies were dead 10 years ago --no one told them? Adapt or die