Google’s cookie-killing “Privacy Sandbox” project is finally set to begin.

Google Will Turn Off Cookies for 30 Million People on January 4::Google’s cookie-killing “Privacy Sandbox” project is finally set to begin.

  • my_hat_stinks@programming.devEnglish
    185·
    7 months ago

    In place of cookies, Google has introduced a new set of tools that makes the Chrome browser itself keep tabs on what you’re doing online.

    So instead of cookies which can be blocked or deleted relatively simply there’s spyware baked directly into the browser. How is this an improvement for the user?

    • oDDmON@lemmy.worldEnglish
      74·
      7 months ago

      How is this an improvement for the user?

      Wrong question. You should be asking, how is this an improvement for owners and shareholders? There’s money to be made somehow, right?

      • ilmagico@lemmy.worldEnglish
        7·
        7 months ago

        Will Chromium-based browsers also have this “feature”, or can they turn it off (and will they)? Or is firefox the only safe alternative left?

        • carl_dungeon@lemmy.worldEnglish
          3·
          7 months ago

          I use a mix of browsers, but I don’t think all chromium get this automatically- most are forks from further upstream I think? Vivaldi is my favorite non-chrome chromium.