Google shared details on a recently introduced Chrome feature that changes how cookies are requested, with early tests showing increased performance across all platforms. In the past, single-process ...

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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (WHAT THE TECH?) — One of the most popular browsers said it would change how it handles your cookies. But Jamey Tucker found out that’s not happening anymore. If you’ve ever been ...

Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote about processors, digital photography, AI, quantum computing, computer science, materials science, supercomputers, drones, browsers, 3D ...

Apologies for not putting more of a disclaimer on that headline, and further apologies to anyone who spit their coffee out onto their laptop. But you read it right: Google is seriously considering ...

As of writing, Google already has efforts to protect users from these cookies. One of these is the option to allow users to reject cookies used by websites they are accessing. However, Google's ...

Google has started testing the phasing out of third-party cookies on Chrome, affecting about 1% of its users or approximately 30 million people. Learn how to check if you are part of the initial test.

With all the focus on FAST and other advertising-based channels, there’s been a surprising lack of attention on Google's once-imminent, now-delayed Cookie Apocalypse, a nickname for Google's decision ...

Google Chrome is ditching third-party cookies for good. If all goes according to plan, then future updates to the world’s most popular web browser will rewrite the rules of online advertising and make ...

Google had originally intended to phase out third-party cookies and replace them with new technologies from its "Privacy Sandbox" by 2022.

The Chrome Privacy Sandbox's Tracking Protection prompt that notifies the user of third-party cookies being restricted. (Google) It's finally time. Google already ...