Wherever you go on the internet, the same question pops up in one form or another: "Do you want to allow the use of cookies?" Where you click, where you spend time, what site you came from and when you return - information like this, stored on your computer and phone's browser, has become a key pillar of personalized online advertising. However, the pressure on browser companies like Google is growing as users grow increasingly aware of (and frustrated with) lacking data security, and many in th
Today marks the first of many upcoming moments of silence in Google’s years-long plan to kill cookies. As of this morning, the Chrome web browser disabled cookies for 1% of its users, about 30 million people. By the end of the year, cookies will be gone in Chrome forever—sort of.