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Stephen Downes

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This is good coverage of the firestorm that has erupted around plans by Google and others to end the use of tracking cookies on the web. This article focuses on the efforts by businesses who depend on tracking cookies for their revenue, focusing on 51Degrees, the U.K.-based data analytics company. But of course the debate goes far beyond that; Google no longer requires tracking cookies because Google is everywhere.

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