Google Just Disabled Cookies for 30 Million Chrome Users. Here’s How to Tell If You’re One of Them | It’s the beginning of the end in Google’s plan to kill cookies forever::It’s the beginning of the end in Google’s plan to kill cookies forever.
third party cookies != cookies
Unless they’ve invented a stateful http, cookies aren’t going anywhere.
You don’t need cookies to keep track of the state. JavaScript can do that without cookies, 3rd party clients can do that without cookies.
There’s also a lot of security gotchas when relying purely on JS.
Just lik with any tech. So what? Stop using internet alltogether?
Nah, cookies + JS is a solid authentication combo. But just JS without cookies is kinda vulnerable. Wouldnt want Paypal or taxes being purely Javascript authenticated.
Heres a fun article
https://betterprogramming.pub/understanding-auth-and-cookies-for-web-applications-33016c588cf9
The article is paywalled. And if someone is incapable of securing their JS app, that’s on them. Cookies won’t help.
Just because something exists does not mean that it should be used literally everyfuckingwhere
Go live in a cave.
Not really a win for the casual web user - What Google will stop doing is selling web ads targeted to individual users’ browsing habits, and its Chrome browser will no longer allow cookies that collect that data for the means of selling to third party advertisers.
Meanwhile, Google will still track and target users on mobile devices, and it will still target ads to users based on their behavior on its own platforms, which make up the majority of its revenue and won’t be affected by the change.
Ad companies that rely on cookies will simply have to find another way to target users.
Ad companies that rely on cookies will simply have to find another way to target users.
Aka pay google instead of getting that info for free
that sounds a lot like unfair competition, to a degree that it is highly illegal in most countries.
Only where non-corrupt politicians agree to enforce the law.
So. Yknow.
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Chromium is open source but isn’t chrome a closed source down stream project? Kinda like how Google’s RCS is in no way open despite all their BS ads bitching about iMessage?
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Privacy Sandbox so the privacy doesn’t get out. 😃
Well that decreases the total tracking Chrome web users would be exposed to. Google would track the same, third parties would track less. If third party ad networks weren’t total pieces of shit that leak private data all over the place including to data brokers, I’d have a bigger problem with it. Right now, in a sort of a fucked up way, it’s a net positive.
Google should not be setting standards on something that is supposed to be open. Google should be getting dismantled and divided into individual companies that would fail without the surveillance apparatus that is the real product, which is why it will never happen and why they’re given unchecked power
Google is not the only browser vendor trying to kill third party cookies.
Go on. Who else is?
Firefox has protections in place to put them in containers, and users can block them if they choose but neither is killing them.Let alone kill them to replace it with your own worse system lol
Brave is chromium, so that doesnt count lol.
But huh, TIL.
Nice to see that safari and firefox already had plans to fully block them. Im kinda scared of websites breaking as in my current firefox setup, that blocks 3th party cookies, things like teams are broken already without an exception so im sure this will block a lot of shit. Thats good, but oh shit…
So that means Chrome won’t spy on me anymore, right?
… right guys?
They are making sure nobody else will track you
Sure, buddy, sure 👍
Haha! Ahhhh. No.
Firefox did this 4 years ago and didn’t replace them with an alternative tracking method.
Sure is nice of Google to change things for the better of the world. I’m sure they stand to gain nothing from this. < /sarcasm>
