Google Abandons Plan to Kill Tracking Cookies, Leaving 3 Billion Chrome Users Under Corporate…

Google Abandons Plan to Kill Tracking Cookies, Leaving 3 Billion Chrome Users Under Corporate SurveillanceAfter years of broken promises to eliminate third-party cookies in its Chrome browser, Google has thrown in the towel. The search giant is choosing to maintain the status quo, allowing the invasive data-harvesting to continue unabated. For years, third-party cookies have functioned as the eyes and ears of the digital advertising industry, empowering countless data brokers to build disturbingly detailed personal dossiers on users. Google, whose empire is built on nearly 80% advertising revenue, first pledged in 2020 to phase out the cross-site tracking mechanism by 2022 source: https://medium.com/pivx/google-abandons-plan-to-kill-tracking-cookies-leaving-3-billion-chrome-users-under-corporate-b1255d545e78?source=rss----430d9242e45e---4