Re:Google delays phasing out ad cookies on Chrome until 2024
by ilovegorhill on Thursday July 28, 2022 @02:23AM
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This is the actual link that should have been posted to HackerNews: https://developer.chrome.com/blog/expanding-privacy-sandbox-...
Re:Google delays phasing out ad cookies on Chrome until 2024
by jefftk on Thursday July 28, 2022 @08:01AM
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I'd missed that post, and it's an excellent summary of where this work is!
Re:Google delays phasing out ad cookies on Chrome until 2024
by JoshTriplett on Thursday July 28, 2022 @04:07AM
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> Google promised regulators that they wouldn't get rid of cookies without a replacement for advertising
This is an excellent example of theoretically good intentions (promoting competition) leading to terrible results (preventing the removal of something largely unwanted that's abused by advertisers).
Re:Google delays phasing out ad cookies on Chrome until 2024
by SilverBirch on Thursday July 28, 2022 @04:24AM
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It might be that Bloomberg geniunely doesn't understand what these are since you can get past their soft paywall by removing their cookies.
I think the main reason Bloomberg is calling them ad cookies is because it is the impact on advertising that's causing this delay. Google promised regulators that they wouldn't get rid of cookies without a replacement for advertising, and those replacements aren't ready yet. On the other hand, this is really hard and I don't know if Google is actually going to be able to do this ever.
(I used to work on this)