Friday, January 05, 2024

Google’s plan to kill cookies by end of 2024 is making advertisers crumble in fear, but users delight

Will this also kill the many, so annoying prompts for users to accept cookies on visiting web pages? Then, I am all for it!

"Starting today [1/4/2024], the tech giant will run a limited test to restrict cookies for 1% of the people who use its Chrome browser, which is by far the world’s most popular. Cookies log internet users’ activity across websites, so advertisers can target them (🔐 read for free) with relevant ads. By year’s end, Google plans to eliminate them for all Chrome users. The company’s sweeping changes to how companies track users online—moves that have been years in the making—are among the biggest in the history of the $600 billion-a-year online-ad industry. Marketers, advertising-technology companies and web publishers said Google, which has introduced software tools designed to help replace cookies, hasn’t done enough to prepare the market."

The Wall Street Journal What's news

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