Google Chrome coders really, truly, absolutely ready to cull third-party cookies from 2024
Google Chrome coders really, truly, absolutely ready to cull third-party cookies from 2024
Bonfire of the web trackers is coming, industry ready or not
Fuck chrome, fuck Google.
Kill third party everything. No more CDNs, no more tracking pixels, no more cookies, no more content from anything but the domain in the url bar.
What if everything is just routed through the backend and still is able to track you?
But that is a lot harder to do and requires more resources.
If you have a tracking pixel now, the company directly knows your browser from you downloading that pixel. If they were to implement the single-backend stuff, the site would have to gather all that information themselves and then send it to all the trackers. But they can't just send it somewhere, because then everyone could send bogus info to them so you need verification and an api and that is costly and each company would build their own api so you need to buy a program that speaks all those apis... You get the point. It's a LOT more work than just pasting the text for some pixel somewhere on your site and let the others do the rest.
Yes please.
This person absolutely HATES Twitter embeds.
so, if were usin firefox, were good to go?
Good in what sense? Firefox is already blocking third party cookies as part of its enhanced tracking protection (which you should set to "strict" level, go do that right now if you didn't already).
Thank you. Just did it
This is the best summary I could come up with:
With the publication of its notice of intent to deprecate and remove third-party cookies, those involved in the development of Google's Chrome browser and its associated Chromium open source project now have more specific guidance.
As Google senior software engineer Johann Hofmann observed in his aforementioned notice, the phaseout of third-party cookies and shift to Privacy Sandbox technology – in Chrome at least – is a significant change in the status quo.
The impact of replacing the technical foundation of internet advertising while marketers are still doing business on the premises hasn't been lost on regulators, who have been trying to ensure that Google builds a level-playing field – something critical lobbying groups have disputed.
Thus Google has agreed to make specific commitments to the UK's Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) to allay concerns that the Privacy Sandbox doesn't become a killzone for competitors.
While it seems unlikely that watchdogs want to ensure that every marketer operates from an equal level of informational wealth, competitors have a unique opportunity to hamstring the ad giant by raising the alarm amid its antitrust trials and inquiries around the globe.
"The web in general is rapidly moving away from third-party cookies, with Firefox and Safari leading the way," said EFF senior staff technologist Jacob Hoffman-Andrews in an email to The Register.
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Isn't it sad that they referred to them as "Google Chrome coders" and not "web developers?"
Tells me everything I need to know.