What changes are they making, and how to prevent them affecting users?

Also, does Privacy Badger, uBlock Origin, or a VPN with ad-blocking and anti-tracking prevent the new data collection through Chrome?

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    1 year ago

    a big business isn’t supposed to directly undermine another big business

    Apple has entered the chat.

    (See: Their walled gardens, e.g., any browser that wants to bring their own engine to iOS.)

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      1 year ago

      Apple never let them in to begin with. If Chrome turned off third-party cookies for all users today, Facebook (among others) would sue and probably win.

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        Which feels like one of those things that’s technically legal, but against the spirit of the original law