There’s been kerfuffle after kerfuffle (after kerfuffle) at the World Wide Web Consortium since Google first announced its plans in January 2020 to kill off third-party cookies in Chrome. At the time, Google encouraged ad tech companies to join the W3C’s Improving Web Advertising Business Group (IWABG) as a way to provide feedback on and […]
The European Commission verified in writing on Friday that Google’s use of data to fuel its ad tech business is a focus of its ongoing antitrust investigation. And here’s the kicker: “Google’s proposals to deprecate third-party cookies are within the scope.” As Brussels-based journalist Alexander Fanta highlighted on Twitter, this could mean by extension that […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. FLoC Fears There’s no love lost for FLoC. In a blog post on Sunday entitled “Proposal: Treat FLoC As A Security Concern,” a WordPress developer called Carike suggested that users of the open source content management software block FLoC by default. If that happens, […]
