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0oWow ,

So they get to keep their Ad Privacy malware and cookies. Sounds like that was their endgame.

mke , (edited )

All the more reason to use Firefox with uBlock Origin if you can, which despite concerns regarding Mozilla are still much more likely to align with users’ best interests and help you avoid being tracked all over the web.

Instead of deprecating third-party cookies, we would introduce a new experience in Chrome that lets people make an informed choice that applies across their web browsing, and they’d be able to adjust that choice at any time.

What does this even mean, Google?

Lemminary ,

despite their issues

What issues?

Bookmeat ,

Getting tracked 😂

MyTurtleSwimsUpsideDown ,

Pages blocking you because you block their cookies

chickenf622 ,

That’s not an issue inherent to Firefox and anyone that cares enough to block cookies usually has the know-how of how to re-enable them for a specific page.

mke ,

Edited to clarify which one I was referring to.

The definition of issue here changes significantly from person to person, from some disliking Firefox’s visual design to others criticizing business and technological decisions by Mozilla.

Honestly, there’s nothing I feel like bringing up and starting another discussion over. I mostly added that to stop certain folks from cleverly answering “but what about <issue>? Mozilla isn’t a saint!” As though that wasn’t taken into account from the start.

deegeese ,

What does this even mean?

There’s an opt-out check box buried 4 clicks deep in Chrome settings. The choices are “Allow 3rd party Cookies” and “Ask me later”.

brbposting ,

It should reset every time the browser is closed and/or daily to respect the, uh, dynamics of the modern consumer.

lemmyvore ,

Means they’d like to replace cookies with something proprietary that they control.

adarza ,

they’re trying, with that ‘privacy’ sandbox crap.

magnetosphere ,
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So… was Google just fucking with advertisers, basically saying “you’re so dependent on us, we can choose to make you freak out about a technology change that never happens?” That would be pretty diabolical, which means I wouldn’t put it past them.

umbrella ,
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it sounds like they replaced it with something worse

ryathal ,

The goal was to come up with an alternative that gave Google a significant advantage in advertising while appearing to protect privacy. That project has apparently failed, so it’s now more like business as usual.

radivojevic ,

I think this is the first time Google killed a plan to kill.

riskable ,
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They never ever got a license to do it in the first place!

modifier ,

This is just the natural progression in the length of their product lifecycles, really.

deegeese ,

Just you wait, now that their plan to kill 3P cookies failed, FLOC will be on killedbygoogle.com in a year or two.

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