This is not an article for or against cookies – they are a part of the operation of the internet and most times we benefit from functionality they offer us. But the reality of cookies is that they can contain information that we would prefer remains private.
Since the beginning of 2020 Google has been looking to change the way it’s Google chrome browser uses cookies. The importance of this, is that cookies are the device that allows websites and services to track you and your actions across the internet. What is done with and allowed by cookies has a huge impact on your privacy. So if Google is proposing a change in their use then there will be change in your privacy – good or bad changes, well that depends on your point of view.
Google slammed over ad-cookie replacement flip-flop – BBC News
Google Has a New Plan to Kill Cookies. People Are Still Mad | WIRED UK (update)
Further Reading
Cookies crumbling as Google phases them out – BBC News
Google tracking cookies ban delayed until 2023 – BBC News
A bigger impact!
So you think that this will not impact you because you do not use Google Chrome. Well there are two points to think about then.
The first is if Google changes the way it uses cookies other vendors will not want to buck what the market leader is doing – so they will change too.
However if this change in Google Chrome is ported to the open source Google Chromium software then that has implications across a wide range of other browsers.
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