Chrome privacy sandbox

The anonymous alphanumeric string made and lost fortunes in its short but eventful life. It was best-known for something it wasn’t actually designed to do: targeting ads.

In short, does the Privacy Sandbox work? In the Tech Lab’s view: No. But whether these APIs work or not is a deceptively slippery question, because it depends on your definition of “work.”

In today’s newsletter: The CMA comes out with an updated evaluation of Chrome’s Privacy Sandbox proposals; the IAB talks Privacy Sandbox with Google; and Temu may be a shell company, but its ad spend keeps skyrocketing.

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Prime Time Ads have arrived on Prime Video.  But audiences have just about had it with streaming services that nickel-and-dime them, The Wall Street Journal reports. Instead of forking over an additional $3 per month to avoid ads, many have canceled their Amazon […]

Although Optable participated in the W3C Privacy Sandbox working groups and has been testing Sandbox API integrations for the past eight months, its early access program represents its first foray into running real campaigns.

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Tough Cookies Some industry observers (including AdExchanger) have deliberated on The Trade Desk’s apparent withdrawal from – and direct antagonism with – the Chrome Privacy Sandbox. Bill Simmons, TTD’s VP of product, penned a column in December for The Current, which is The […]

By this time next year, advertisers will need to have already put their post-cookie campaign strategies in place. Did advertisers and ad tech companies use the extra time they had thanks to multiple deadline delays wisely or did they procrastinate?

Mark your calendars for Jan. 4, 2024 all you deprecation skeptics. On Jan. 4, Google will begin cutting off third-party cookie access for 1% of a randomly selected group of Chrome users globally.

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Sandboxers In The Ring The Trade Desk is saying farewell to the Chrome Privacy Sandbox, and it’s firing parting shots on the way out. In its view, the APIs in the Privacy Sandbox will devalue open internet advertising, while Google’s ad tech business […]

Yes, Google pushed back the deadline twice. But barring action by the UK’s competition regulator, which has oversight over Google’s rollout of the Privacy Sandbox, third-party cookies in Chrome are dunzo.