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submitted 2 years ago by Illecors@lemmy.cafe to c/folderol@lemmy.cafe

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The ad companies are complaining. This is either a farce or Google is doing something actually useful this time.

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[–] uservoid1@lemmy.world 34 points 2 years ago (2 children)

"Killing Cookies" is not the same as "Killing Third-Party Cookies"

[–] ForgotAboutDre@lemmy.world 13 points 2 years ago

It's should be removing Google competitors ability to track users. By leveraging their monopoly on web browsing technology.

[–] Lmaydev@programming.dev 13 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Google’s changes target third-party cookies the online ad industry places on websites to track users around the internet.

Literally what they are doing.

1st party cookies are not affected.