Security News > 2020 > January > Google to kill third-party Chrome cookies in two years

Google doesn't want to block third-party cookies in Chrome right now.

Once these approaches have addressed the needs of users, publishers, and advertisers, and we have developed the tools to mitigate workarounds, we plan to phase out support for third-party cookies in Chrome.

A bank could use it to avoid sending session cookies to another site that links to a customer's transaction page, for example, so that a third party couldn't harvest session information.

Developers have to be upfront about how third-party cookies will work, or Chrome won't send them between sites at all.

What else is Google doing that would help make third-party cookies obsolete? It lists a set of explainers here that outline plans including aggregated reporting, measuring conversions on websites without tracking users, and Federated Learning of Cohorts, which lets you monitor the behaviour of a group of similar people rather than individuals.

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https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2020/01/16/google-to-kill-third-party-chrome-cookies-in-two-years/