Google is temporarily reversing its plan to stop supporting cross-site third-party cookie sharing by default, citing the “extraordinary global circumstances due to COVID-19.” This decision means the SameSite changes Chrome started enforcing when it released Chrome 80 in February are on hold. It plans to restart the process at some point over the summer. In […]
By 2022, third-party cookies will be obsolete in Chrome. But there’s a more pressing deadline looming that advertisers need to prepare for: SameSite. Beginning on Feb. 4, Chrome will stop supporting cross-site third-party cookie sharing by default. Third-party cookies that aren’t secure – as in, accessed over HTTPS – and also properly labeled using the […]
Is Google planning its own version of Safari’s Intelligent Tracking Prevention? Never say never. Google is less than two months away from instituting a policy change within the next iteration of Chrome that will severely limit cross-site cookie sharing, and most ad tech companies seem blithely unaware. Starting Feb. 4, and to coincide with the […]
