AFP Google has said the elimination of cookies is in response to privacy concerns. Google Chrome pins and stickers are displayed during the Google I/O developers conference at the Moscone Center on 15 May 2013 in San Francisco, California. Picture: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images/AFP
Google said Thursday it was delaying plans to phase out the use of browser “cookies” for its ad targeting after drawing complaints over its replacement for the technology.
The phasing out of third-party cookies bits of software that keep track of sites visited by users will be pushed back into mid-2023 instead of late 2022 for the Chrome browser, Google said in a blog post.
Google: About that whole getting rid of third-party cookies thing – we re gonna need another year or so
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