back to article Google pencils in limited third-party cookie purge for January

Starting January 4, 2024, Google says it will begin blocking third-party cookies by default in Chrome for one percent of users, only three or four years after rival browsers implemented similar privacy protections. Expect some websites and services to break. Third-party cookies – files for ad tracking, analytics, and other …

  1. Snowy Silver badge
    Facepalm

    None

    No web site should break if third party cookies are disabled.

    1. Dinanziame Silver badge

      Re: None

      "Should" being the operative word here. I think certain websites have been lazily using third-party cookies for authentication to their own services.

      1. Sven Coenye
        Unhappy

        Re: None

        Unless you are in Leftpondia where banks don't talk to each other and they insert a frame to something called "BillPay" in their website so you can, you know, pay bills without having to put pieces of paper in the mail.

        (TBH, our bank did eventually get around to better integration, but at first, I did have to turn 3rd party cookies back on on SWMBO's laptop.)

    2. Missing Semicolon Silver badge

      Re: None

      Loads of smaller e-commerce sites fail at the payment stage with 3rd party cookies disabled.

  2. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    And please cancel Chrome Refresh 2023

    Moving downloads up to the bar was a good idea, though.

  3. biddibiddibiddibiddi Bronze badge

    If they hadn't already shifted to Chrome/Chromium-based due to third-party cookie blocking...why would they do it now that Chrome is going to block third-party cookies as well?

  4. MajorDoubt
    Thumb Down

    If your a Internet idiot

    And have no idea of what a web browser is, you just click on things and whatever comes up is what you use, your a google chrome user, most likely using chrome installed by some freeware crap you installed and just clicked through the installer menus.

    So just like the average American idiot who believes they found structures on the far site of the moon.

    Your googles target audience.

    1. Mark Exclamation

      Re: If your a Internet idiot

      If "your" going to throw insults, you should learn to spell first!

  5. Chet Mannly

    "Expect some websites and services to break."

    Have had 3rd party cookies blocked by default for ages now - not one website has broken because of it.

  6. benderama

    I don’t think we’ll see it in our lifetime, but a marketing-free internet would be amazingly faster. I disabled my blocker recently for an hour or two. Ugh.

    When you’re shown 4 ads around one small paragraph, and all the ads are for the same thing, something’s gotta change.

    1. kend1
      Pint

      You missed it

      It was [mostly] marketing-free in the early 1990s, before the greedy people showed up.

  7. Pascal Monett Silver badge
    WTF?

    What ?

    "embedded analytics capabilities through dashboard interfaces, which often rely on iframes and cross-domain third-party cookies for authentication"

    So you base your "embedded analytics" on a monstrosity that uses iframes ? One of the most-used tricks of malware writers ?

    How's about you clean your shit up instead of complaining ?

  8. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    "there are still plenty of websites that tell users they need to enable third-party cookies to function"

    At which point I go and use a different website..

  9. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    Naturally...

    its own ads and tracking cookies will still be allowed... won't they???

    Google would not shoot its own data slurping business in the foot... Is it April 1st already? Nah.

    Google is EVIL and this won't change a thing as far as their bottom line goes.

    {My business is a Google free environment}

    1. hayzoos

      Re: Naturally...

      Mentioned in the article, google needed a replacement before disablung 3rd party cookies.

      I accepr all cookies, and promptly discard them when I leave. Same effect as blocking from my point of view.

      I also block scripts by default and only enable those needed for a site to work. How much I enable depends on how much I need to need to use the site.

      Google is getting far more pervasive, not good.

  10. Jay Zelos

    If you look at Google's own list of sites at risk you'll see Sales Force, Azure portal and many others. A lot of sites that run inside an iframe inside CRM or ERP cloud solutions etc.

    Firefox and Edge both use a commercial blacklist of ad trackers, neither last I looked blocked all third party cookies. Last time Safari did this they reverted it within days.

    Interesting times ahead.

  11. Grunchy Silver badge

    I got tricked

    Somehow I got tricked into using “thorium” browser, and now I find out if has furry porn and circumcision images? I am trying to avoid google and microsoft spyware, and I got duped by “the individual” instead.

    (If somebody ever tries to corner you into using their choice of pronouns, use “the individual” instead. Works practically everywhere.)

  12. Kevin McMurtrie Silver badge
    Windows

    MS offlook

    Doesn't the Microsoft Enterprise ecosystem require degraded security protocols for the enterprise stuff? I'm sure JWT or OAuth would do the trick, but hey, let's all share dirty cookies like it's 1999.

  13. mark l 2 Silver badge

    I disabled 3rd party cookies on Chrome over 12 months ago, and not noticed any problems. Although if i did go to a site that broke with 3rd party cookies turned off I wouldn't bother switching it back on just for that, I would use a different site/service that isn't still operating likes its 2010.

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