But all that puffery conspicuously failed to mention that Google had quietly rolled out its long-discredited, new surveillance technology, #FLOC, which it pretended to kill in 2021:

https://pluralistic.net/2021/04/22/ihor-kolomoisky/#not-that-competition

#FLOC is back, rebranded as the #TopicsAPI: this is a system for spying on you so advertisers can target you. Google is spinning this as a privacy *improvement* because it might someday replace #ThirdPartyCookies, one of the creepiest web surveillance systems.

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Tick-tock, the cookie doomsday clock is upon us! ⌛ Google is taking a step towards nuking third-party cookies, starting with an experiment on 1% of Chrome users.

#Google #Chrome #AdBuying #AdTech #DigitalMarketing #ThirdPartyCookies

https://todayindigital.com/googles-plan-to-nuke-third-party-cookies/

@absamma Discouragement on purpose. Hateful treatment of customers. I hope they will be forbidden soon, them #ThirdPartyCookies

We should all be skeptical that Google will deliver on it's promise to improve consumer privacy and expand data protection, when that very act will erode Google's Ad dominance.

#Advertising #Privacy #ThirdPartyCookies @tag

https://www.paradoxpairs.com/google-moat-and-consumer-privacy/

Supposedly trusted financial websites could be sharing your data with others. Your health data. Your family’s college expenses. Maybe without your consent.

Do you block third party cookies?

https://agnate.co.uk/som/post.php?id=2742&t=Tax_Filing_Websites_Caught_Sending_Users__Financial_Data_to_Facebook___ExtremeTech

#privacy #thirdpartycookies

Although this report is from the US it still applies elsewhere as cookies are global and once running on your page the JavaScript can see anything.

Supposedly trusted financial websites could be sharing your data with others. Your health data. Your family’s college expenses. Maybe without your consent.

Do you block third party cookies?

https://agnate.co.uk/som/post.php?id=2742&t=Tax_Filing_Websites_Caught_Sending_Users__Financial_Data_to_Facebook___ExtremeTech

#privacy #thirdpartycookies

Although this report is from the US it still applies elsewhere as cookies are global and once running on your page the JavaScript can see anything.

Apple Safari now blocks all third-party cookies by default - Starting in 13.1, advertisers and analytics firms can't track us through browser cookies. Apple sa... more: https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2020/03/26/apple-safari-now-blocks-all-third-party-cookies-by-default/ #browserfingerprints #thirdpartycookies #browserprivacy #onlineprivacy #safaribrowser #applesafari #webbrowsers #cookies #safari #apple