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The initial statement was low on details because it was just an statement of intention. Specific steps they're taking to combat fingerprinting are visible in th

The initial statement was low on details because it was just an statement of intention. Specific steps they're taking to combat fingerprinting are visible in their public bug tracker[1]. Also, let's not forget the privacy budget[2] system they just announced in the OP. That seems rather promising. [1]: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/list?q=component%3APrivacy%3EFingerprinting%20&can=2 https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/list?q=component... [2]: https://github.com/bslassey/privacy-budget https://github.com/bslassey/privacy-budget

Drdrdrq 7y ago
The cynic in me is 100% sure they calculated the impact of these changes to their ability to track users and found the impact negligible. Still, it probably does make tracking more difficult for other advertisers, so there's that.
- cpeterso 7y ago
  Since Google has cookies dropped by google.com properties that they can use for user tracking, I'm surprised they haven't worked harder to reduce the effectiveness of fingerprinting in Chrome. They could make user tracking more difficult for ad companies that don't have cookies dropped by sites as popular as google.com while accurately marketing the Chrome changes as improving user privacy.