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.
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The opposition Left Alliance party submitted a motion of no confidence in Minister of Social Affairs and Health Kaisa Juuso over government cuts to social services.
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...
The union organizing campaign at Amazon’s warehouse in Bessemer, AL is still alive and could be headed to another election. NPR reports: “It could have been the first unionized Amazon warehouse in America. Now, three years later, workers are waiting to learn whether they’ll get a third shot at a union election. A sweeping, monthslong… Source
For the third time, Google has postponed the anticipated deprecation of third-party cookies in its Chrome browser.
For a majority, a party will need to win 30 of the 59 seats that make up Rotherham Council. Currently, Labour holds 32 seats, the Conservatives hold 15, the Liberal Democrats hold four, independents hold seven, and the Independent Conservatives hold two. In May 2021, Labour retained overall control of the council, but lost 16 seats – and the Conservatives won 20 seats to form the main opposition when they previously held none. Since the last boundary changes in 2020, the council has been made...
There are 63 seats on Barnsley Council, and 32 seats are needed for a majority. Labour currently holds 48 seats, Lib Dems hold 10, Conservatives hold two, Independents hold two, and Reform UK has one. In May 2021, Labour retained overall control of the council but lost three seats. In December 2022, Conservative councillor for Rockingham ward David White defected to Reform UK. In Barnsley, there are 21 electoral wards, each represented by three councillors. Here, each party standing in the...