Google starts testing its replacement for third-party cookies

Re:Google starts testing its replacement for third-party coo... by waste_monk on Sunday August 02, 2020 @11:12PM (#24033864)

Between the whole HTML5 / XHTML2 thing (which they lost to WHATWG) and the fact that they're a pack of sellouts (the Encrypted Media Extensions debacle), I would not trust a single thing coming out of the W3C. If Trust Tokens are of any use then it should be handed over to WHATWG (which is where I understand it should be anyway given it's an API thing).

Which is not to say I'm fond of advertising tracking like this by any means, I hate it, but if we're going to have it foisted on us by Google et. al. then it should at least be managed by a more competent group than the W3C.

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Re:Google starts testing its replacement for third-party coo... by Santosh83 on Monday August 03, 2020 @02:59AM (#24034880)

I don't see how that will be better. WHATWG are basically Google and Apple as it stands. Used to be them plus Mozilla and Microsoft but Firefox is at ~5% market share while MS have forked Chromium. So it won't make any difference whether it is WHATWG or W3C except with the latter the companies can at least claim they're promoting an established standards body, so it's better optics.

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Re:Google starts testing its replacement for third-party coo... by dwaite on Monday August 03, 2020 @01:01AM (#24034365)

In what way are the browser vendors that would participate in this in the W3C different than the browser vendors that would participate in this at WHATWG?

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Re:Google starts testing its replacement for third-party coo... by stoops on Sunday August 02, 2020 @11:41PM (#24034003)

This hits hard and true.

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