Recent online privacy gains will benefit rich countries first — Quartz
May 13, 2021 People who browse the web on personal computers and Apple devices are about to gain a bit of privacy online. That’s because major tech companies are making it harder for advertisers to use two key technologies that allow them to track individuals across the web: third-party browser cookies and Apple’s ID for Advertisers (IDFA). As a result, advertisers will have much less power to gather mountains of granular data on what individual web users read, view, and buy online. Tech giants—mainly Apple, Google, and the non-profit Mozilla Corporation that runs the Firefox browser...