Google Chrome is no longer 'deprecating third-party cookies'

aard , 4 hours ago

They probably couldn’t get google drive to work without 3rd party cookies.

skullgiver , 39 minutes ago

Actually, they weren’t permitted to disable 3rd party cookies by industry watchdogs, because other advertisers claimed they couldn’t track users enough if Google were to switch over to blocking third party cookies by default.

That’s why they wanted everyone to switch over to FLoC, their attempt to please watchdogs, but that approach failed.

aard , 11 minutes ago

I just mentioned that because google drive links are one of the very few things I’m opening in chrome - and they’re the only site where I need a 3rd party cookie exemption for.

archonet , 4 hours ago

This is your daily reminder that Firefox and its derivatives exist and should be used wherever possible if you care about Google not having a monopoly over the internet. There’s even a Firefox-based version of Discord called Datcord.

takeda , 3 hours ago

Absolutely. If you think you can switch when chrome will be completely hostile it will be too late.

The reason they are trying those things in chrome is because the market share of Firefox is currently low. They are counting that you won’t have the option to run Firefox anymore, because sites will stop supporting it. Don’t let that happen.

breakingcups , 2 hours ago

Also, Firefox is in a tough situation where they have to purposefully shoot themselves in the foot, because their builtin tracking protection means Firefox usually doesn’t show up in a lot of browser usage stats.

takeda , 2 hours ago

I didn’t think about it, though if that makes it harder to track it (can’t they just check the user agent?) could that actually be good, as the sites will never know exactly how many users they will lose, so might be more hesitant to pull the trigger?

dxc , 3 hours ago

Thanks I didn’t know about Datcord

tabular , 2 hours ago

Note: “I don’t use Discord/Datcord anymore because of their terrible TOS which Datcord can’t protect you from.”

kenkenken , 2 hours ago

I doubt Firefox will deprecate third-party cookies is Chrome won’t. And now Firefox has included literally ad tracking component into the browser and enabled it for all users by default.

Balinares , 1 hour ago

Firefox’s stance on privacy, like Apple’s, is to some extent branding. Arguably it always was. You should still use Firefox (or any other third party browser) if it works for you. Ecosystem diversity matters.

corbin , 4 hours ago

Google worked on Privacy Sandbox/Topics API/FLoC for at least five years, and it couldn’t get something that advertisers, regulators, and users could all agree on, so it’s just falling back to the thing that worked (but has next to zero privacy protections). Sigh.

NaibofTabr , 3 hours ago

Yeah, this is a loss for user privacy.

Contravariant , 1 hour ago

Also a reminder that accepting an alternative tracking method is likely to just end up with 2 different ways to track you rather than one slightly less invasive one.