Five years ago when the Chrome team announced the Privacy Sandbox, I called a "delaying tactic." Not getting rid of cookies as the first step was never going to work.
Today they announced that they won't be deprecating third-party cookies. That's five years wasted.
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Again, don't get me wrong: I'm all for exploring novel privacy solutions. But overwhelmingly the threat model is cross-site cookie tracking and we have excellent solutions deployed in the wild for that.
We need more from the Chrome team than some delaying tactics.
Hour 24 of a 5h flight, briefly stranded in Houston and all the displays are still Microsoft Blue. "Welcome on the plane to nowhere" says the staff.
I'm not crying you're crying.
For the next five years, thanks to a lawsuit, you will get a privacy protection in Chrome Incognito that you get by default in modern browsers.
Chrome is like other Google properties: it talks a big game about privacy as something that other companies should do.
Hear me out: what if whoever baked the best bread got to run things?
Anyone else getting semi-desperate spam from Google News? This one came to an email address that isn't even a Google account…
The end of Mrs. Davis (without spoilers) is excellent, but I particularly loved Simone's reaction when she finally understood how the world-dominating algorithm came to be. One of the most plausible AIs in fiction!
Putain, la FNAC, je ne sais pas s'il fallait la faire celle-ci…
This one goes out to all of you working on digital governance ♥️
