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Google Will Turn Off Cookies for 30 Million People on January 4 (gizmodo.com)

submitted 9 months ago by LollerCorleone@kbin.social to c/technology@kbin.social

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Google’s cookie-killing “Privacy Sandbox” project is finally set to begin.

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[–] soupcat@sopuli.xyz 6 points 9 months ago

Trying to make sure no one has your data (except them).

[–] EmptyRadar@kbin.social 3 points 9 months ago

Trusting Google to oversee your privacy is like asking a grizzly bear to make sure no one eats this big pile of fresh salmon

[–] syd@lemy.lol 1 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Will it kill Google ads cookies too?

[–] Gordon_Freeman@kbin.social 5 points 9 months ago

Its core purpose is to facilitate online advertising by sharing a subset of user private information without the use of third-party cookies.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Privacy_Sandbox

[–] LollerCorleone@kbin.social 3 points 9 months ago

They will just directly use Chrome instead

[–] Cat@kbin.social 1 points 9 months ago

This is not a great article. So many words with so little information. In other articles I found it sounds like Chrome is finally getting third party cookie blocking. Other browsers have had thir for years. Its nothing new.