Google is abandoning its 'privacy sandbox' initiative. What this means is that its flagship browser, Chrome, will continue to support tracking cookies. There's some reassuring text on the website to say that the initiative will continue, but with no real objective to achieve, it won't. Combined with recent changes to Chrome to disable adblockers, it really looks like Google is essentially commiting to a vision of the web as (primarily) an advertising medium. Remember, everyone, advertising is the original fake news. It is the original disinformation. Advertising, not social media, is what is undermining democracy. See also: the Register, the Verge, Digiday, Thurrott, Tech Radar, Computerworld. Related: here come the ads in Meta's Threads. Also realted: US Wants Judge to Break Up Google, Force Sale of Chrome.
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