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Re:Google Chrome browser privacy plan investigated in UK by capableweb on Friday January 08, 2021 @08:27AM (#25684470)
Google for some owns the full pipeline of websites, from where the website is being served from (Google AMP), scripts where the website does client side stuff (Tag Manager + Analytics), to the browser that reads it (Google Chrome / Chromium) and in some cases even the OS (Chrome OS).

Is not hard to imagine that they are getting rid of Cookies because they now have other ways of getting the data, and getting rid of Cookies would make things harder for competitors that don't own the full pipeline.

Even with that, I'm sure that the engineers working on Chromium/Google Chrome are being told that they are removing Cookies for the greater good and don't have insights into the longer pipeline that we're now seeing the middle off.

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Re:Google Chrome browser privacy plan investigated in UK by vermilingua on Friday January 08, 2021 @09:22AM (#25684962)
Don’t forget, they often control the domain registration, have had huge influence in the formation of the languages sites are written in, in some cases the languages the server is written in, even the backbone and last mile delivery of those bits to the user, etc.

Most of that can be leveraged by google to replace cookies.

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