Google has started disabling third-party cookies for Chrome users

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• Butterbee@beehaw.org ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  “Tracking Protection” just means they are protecting their exclusivity in tracking you.

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  • realcaseyrollins ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Yep
  • tal@lemmy.today ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    On one hand, probably an antitrust issue. On the other hand, not sure how popular ensuring a diverse market in tracking tools would be.

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• ConstableJelly@beehaw.org ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  “Tracking protection” sounds more like “alternative tracking.”

  Google’s Privacy Sandbox initiative, just like its name implies, was designed to be an alternative to cookies that will allow advertisers to serve users ads while also protecting their privacy. It assigns users to groups according to their interests, based on their recent browsing activities, and advertisers can use that information to match them with relevant ads.

  Lot of time, money, and effort toward a moderate improvement rather than just not perceiving users as products. But…improvement is improvement.

  What’s the downside?

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  • peter@feddit.uk ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Users are products. That will only change if people become a lot happier with paying for services.

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    • ConstableJelly@beehaw.org ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      No argument here. There’s a global paradigm shift needed to break out of that mindset should it even be possible, but it still boggles my mind in the meantime the resources invested in sustaining this ecosystem.

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  • psudo@beehaw.org ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    The downside is it makes Google the de facto owner of all of your online information. You could never use a Google product, but because they have such a large market share they’ll essentially force every site and platform to use their solution.

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• alphapuggle@programming.dev ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Edge has done this by default since release, with an option to be more strict in what it blocks

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• aard@kyu.de ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Did they also finally fix google drive? Last time I needed something from a shared drive I needed to enable a third party cookie exemption for that.

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