Google begins disabling browser cookies: What you need to know
Google has begun phasing out third-party cookies that can track users across the Internet.
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Google has begun phasing out third-party cookies that can track users across the Internet.
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.
Google announced that it would be disabling third-party cookies for roughly 30 million Chrome users amid its crackdown to ensure user privacy online.
Google has just disabled third-party cookies for one percent of Chrome users, years after it first introduced its Privacy Sandbox project.
Google is initiating tests in its Chrome browser to disable third-party cookies. It reportedly impacts analytics data collection, personalized online ads,