Google Just Disabled Cookies for 30 Million Chrome Users. Here’s How to Tell If You’re One of Them | It’s the beginning of the end in Google’s plan to kill cookies forever::It’s the beginning of the end in Google’s plan to kill cookies forever.
Not really a win for the casual web user - What Google will stop doing is selling web ads targeted to individual users’ browsing habits, and its Chrome browser will no longer allow cookies that collect that data. Meanwhile, Google will still track and target users on mobile devices, and it will still target ads to users based on their behavior on its own platforms, which make up the majority of its revenue and won’t be affected by the change.
Ad companies that rely on cookies will simply have to find another way to target users.
TheBananaKing@lemmy.world 10 months ago
third party cookies != cookies
Unless they’ve invented a stateful http, cookies aren’t going anywhere.
Aux@lemmy.world 10 months ago
You don’t need cookies to keep track of the state. JavaScript can do that without cookies, 3rd party clients can do that without cookies.
LiamMayfair@lemmy.sdf.org 10 months ago
Still, the use of cookies as key elements used to persist client session identifiers in the browser is too widespread and relied upon by prevalent web powerhouses like PHP for Google to do away with them.
Moreover, as much as there may be more modern, sleek alternatives like browser session and application storage, you can’t realistically expect the entire web industry to completely migrate away from cookies just like that.
lefaucet@slrpnk.net 10 months ago
There’s also a lot of security gotchas when relying purely on JS.
wooki@lemmynsfw.com 10 months ago
Well their it is, the dumbest thing I’ve read on the internet today.