On Fri, 23 Aug 2019 09:47:26 +1200, Peter Reutemann quoted:
'Google's Chrome team proposed a "privacy sandbox" Thursday that's designed to give us the best of both worlds: ads that publishers can target toward our interests but that don't infringe our privacy.'
A detailed riposte <https://freedom-to-tinker.com/2019/08/23/deconstructing-googles-excuses-on-tracking-protection/>, which among other things says: Cookie blocking does not undermine web privacy. Google’s claim to the contrary is privacy gaslighting. ... Google has not devised an innovative way to balance privacy and advertising; it is latching onto prior approaches that it previously disclaimed as impractical. Also note this: If the benchmark is original design intent, let’s be clear: cookies were not supposed to enable third-party tracking, and browsers were supposed to block third-party cookies. We know this because the authors of the original cookie technical specification said so (RFC 2109, Section 4.3.5).