The Justice Department’s request represents the agency’s most aggressive attempt to break up a tech company since its antitrust case against Microsoft, which reached a settlement in 2001.
The only reason Chrome has been slowing down the deprecation of 3rd party cookies is because it would make it harder to do privacy invading tracking, and thus, would make Google less money.
No browser benefits from tracking. Only ad companies do.
Indeed, it’s a huge conflict of interest for an ad company to operate the most popular browser. Google being the gatekeeper for the internet is a really terrible situation for the web as a whole.
Absolutely.
The only reason Chrome has been slowing down the deprecation of 3rd party cookies is because it would make it harder to do privacy invading tracking, and thus, would make Google less money.
No browser benefits from tracking. Only ad companies do.
Indeed, it’s a huge conflict of interest for an ad company to operate the most popular browser. Google being the gatekeeper for the internet is a really terrible situation for the web as a whole.