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Comment by hirsin

3 years ago

Context? That whole project was kind of a cluster when I was involved with it, how does this help? Or is it more, without a replacement for 3p cookie tracking they couldn't break it (useful uses of 3p cookies be damned)?

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jsnell  3 years ago

Regulators in the US, EU and UK have made it clear that Chrome can't remove support for 3p cookies without building a replacement feature that works for non-Google ad networks.

  • chrismorgan  3 years ago

    I’m still not sold on your take here. All of that stuff was from no later than mid-2021, back when Google was close to leading the way with this stuff, whereas now they’re just aligning with what everyone else is doing, and if Google isn’t using their privileged position with Chrome to give themselves (google.com or similar) more info than anyone else gets, there can be no credible antitrust argument any more (I say this with a straight face as a technologist). And the fact that other browsers refuse this Topics API would call it into question as a replacement for third-party tracker cookies anyway.

    (Related, comments by both of us within https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36713737 two months ago.)