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Comment by jsnell

6 days ago

No. They're not doing those changes because regulators like the DOJ[0] threatened them with anti-trust action if they did. That's the same DOJ that's now asking for Chrome to be divested.

[0] https://www.engadget.com/google-antitrust-doj-cookies-privac...

Uh. That was not my understanding of that situation.

Blocking third party cookies this way still leaves Google’s tools which people voluntarily install with access to data that now nobody else has access to.