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Canceling the end of 3rd party cookies is also an abuse of their monopoly. Users should be given the choice of how their data is used.
by throwaway48476 2y ago
Canceling the end of 3rd party cookies is also an abuse of their monopoly. Users should be given the choice of how their data is used.
- jauntywundrkind 2y agoFirefox and Safari have massive hard coded lists of carve outs. There is a colossal amount of specification work to do to figure out how to make various necessary web flows possible again after removing third party cookies. Chrome has an incredible commitment to web standards, to not throwing in arbitrary browser-specific web functionality, to going through the process of improving the web holistically. Trying to live up to that high expectation is hard, and we can see a dozen third party cookies or storage isolation concerns they're having to tackle if we go look at https://github.com/orgs/explainers-by-googlers/repositories?type=all https://github.com/orgs/explainers-by-googlers/repositories?...
- jsnell 2y agoFunnily enough, it's exactly the other way around. Google was prevented by completion regulators from turning down third party cookie support by default. (And users already have a choice, Chrome has a setting for whether 3p cookies are allowed, blocked, or blocked in just incognito mode. Reading between the lines, they are probably going to ask users to explicitly choose, since they're not allowed to change the default.)
- salawat 2y ago...users should jave the choice to not have their data used period.