Google Pushes Back Third-Party Cookie Blocking in Chrome to 2024
The big privacy change still needs more time.
Third-party cookies will still be around in Chrome.
Google is pushing back the timeline on phasing out third-party cookies in Chrome to the latter half of 2024, according to a company blog published Wednesday.
The search engine giant said back in 2019 that it wanted to improve the privacy of its browser by blocking these cookies, which are snippets of texts used by advertisers, publishers and data brokers to track activity and target ads to users. Google's initial plan -- part of its initiative called the "Privacy Sandbox" -- was to block third-party cookies in 2020. But then Google pushed back the move to 2023.
Now, the company said, it needs more time for testing.
Google Chrome continues to be the most popular browser, but its rivals, such as Apple's Safari, Mozilla's Firefox, Microsoft's Edge and Brave Software's Brave, have done more to stop their users from being tracked.