Google’s delayed cookie cull is an inevitable intermission to its fractious pursuit of privacy protections

Google’s delayed cookie cull is an inevitable intermission to its fractious pursuit of privacy protections

What started as a ragged pursuit ended up as a rout, with Google finally giving the third-party cookie a stay of execution to buy itself more time to find suitable replacements in its Privacy Sandbox.

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