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Google delays third-party cookie demise in the Chrome browser yet again. Nothing is stopping anyone else from turning off third party cookies.
I am not convinced this is ever going to actually happen. Google won't roll this out until they are sure that their new solution basically has the same effect for advertisers as cookies, but with a new fancy name with "privacy" in it (when its anything but). Google needs to be forced to spin out Chrome to someone else, it is a clear conflict of interest when nearly every (or every? are there any that haven't?) other…
Dear CMA, Can you please let Google do the right thing and disable third party cookies like every other browser vendor.
It looks to me that the only reason Google is pursuing "Privacy Sandbox" is because Chrome dominates the browser marketplace. (I put it in quotes because it neither preserves privacy, nor is it a sandbox). If I don't want 3rd-party cookies (I don't!) then I just toggle them off in Firefox. Sandbox is opaque in the sense that ordinary users can't hope to understand it; and a privacy guarantee is useless, if the user c…
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Privacy/Privacy...
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This isn't Google strong-arming the web. This is Google desperately wanting to turn off third-party cookies, and being told again and again by regulators that they aren't allowed to do so.
Who regulates 3rd party cookies (aside from Warren G)?
But regulators from both the US and the EU have made similar statements.
Ah, right, the makers of the world's most popular web browser are also the world's most profitable online advertising company, that's why.
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Pure speculation, but maybe there's more to this. If Teams refuses to work in Chrome, it might drive run of the mill employees to Edge?
That seems a bit too conspiracy theorist, especially considering most people have 3rd party cookies on and teams has been around for a long time now (I assume before Google announced removing 3rd party cookies) I think the answer is more banal in that some of their oauth flow runs in a different domain from the main application. I think this is tied to wanting to reuse part of oauth flow in the desktop application.
It would be good to stabilize and have widespread support for CHIPS before disable 3rd party cookies entirely, there are use cases beyond advertising for these. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Privacy/Privacy...