Laura Kalbag

Chrome is ditching third-party cookies because Google wants your data all to itself

Written by Maya Shwayder on Digital Trends.

“They’re not really changing underlying tactics [of how they track us], they’re just channeling it all through Google,” [Elizabeth] Renieris told Digital Trends.

“At least we knew how cookies worked. Instead, Google will shore up its surveillance power with even less oversight and accountability, black-boxed behind its proprietary technology. Not good news at all.”[— Christopher Chan]

This means Google will now have full functional, filled out profiles on every single movement and purchase that every one of its billions of users makes across the internet.

Read ‘Chrome is ditching third-party cookies because Google wants your data all to itself’ on the Digital Trends site.

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