Google Chrome delays third-party cookies shutdown until next year, the third time it has been postponed.
Google says UK regulator testing means the advertising tech will last until 2025.
Third-party cookies are small pieces of data that are collected by websites to track user activity. These are particularly lucrative to websites, as this data can be used to target users with personalized ads.
Google keeps promising to phase out third-party cookies on Chrome but not actually doing it. The company vowed to deprecate cookies back in 2020, pushing the date back to 2023 and then 2024. We did get some traction earlier this year, when Google disabled cookies for one percent of Chrome users, but those efforts have stalled. Now, the company says it won’t happen until next year. It’s easy to drag Google for this but it’s not entirely in the company’s hands. The tech giant is working closely...
For now, Google seems to have next year in mind as the latest end date for its plan to eliminate third-party cookies.
Following changes in iOS 17.4 and legislation allowing them, the first new alternative app store has launched in the EU, that promises to help distribute "indie" apps at a low-cost yearly fee. Image Credit: AltStore On Wednesday, AltStore PAL announced that it is officially launching as an alternative to Apple's App Store in the European Union. It bills itself as an "open-source, crowd-funded app store for indies." According to the developers, distributing apps via AltStore PAL is...
For the third time, Google has postponed the anticipated deprecation of third-party cookies in its Chrome browser.
Google this week launched a comprehensive new guide tailored to YouTube Shorts. The move highlights the burgeoning popularity of YouTube's answer to TikTok, which boasts 2 billion monthly logged-in users and 70 billion daily views.
Altstore PAL is available only to EU residents after a ruling that Apple has to allow third-party app stores.
After the EU forced Apple to open up its iOS platform for third-party app stores, we now have the first alternative to Apple's default App Store.It's called AltStore PAL, which is rather fitting. Technically, AltStore PALhas been around since 2019, but you were able to access it after "hacking" your way into it. You had to "disguise" yourself as a developer using companion software called AltServer running on your computer. But after the EU Commission's DMA, AltStore PAL is now available to...
Altstore PAL is available only for residents in the EU as part of the Digital Markets Act ruling that Apple must allow third-party app stores.
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