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A Brief Timeline of Signal Loss

VideoWeek

By 2024, everyone working in digital advertising was tired of hearing about cookie deprecation, writes Thomas Bernal, VP Go To Market at Ogury. What signal loss refers to is the erosion of data that was once used as a reliable proxy for consumer behaviours, or the consumer themselves, such as the famous or infamous third-party cookie.

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Days before UA sunset most sites still not using GA4

Martech

2017: Google releases Global Site Tag (gtag.js). UA relies on third-party cookies to ID users and new privacy regulations, most notably the European Union’s GDPR, meant no more cookies. UA relies on third-party cookies to ID users and new privacy regulations, most notably the European Union’s GDPR, meant no more cookies.

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6 Alternatives to Third-Party Cookies and Mobile IDs in AdTech

Clearcode

Ever since Google Chrome announced in January 2020 that it’ll be shutting off support for third-party cookies in the next few years, companies operating in the programmatic advertising industry have been scrambling to find reliable and effective alternatives to continue operating.

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The Demise of Third-Party Cookies in AdTech: Why Are They Being Phased Out?

Clearcode

At the center of this are third-party cookies and their demise in popular web browsers. In this article, we explain what third-party cookies are, how they work, how they are used in programmatic advertising, why they’re going away, and what the alternatives are. Table of Contents What Are Third-Party Cookies?

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Web analytics is badly broken 

Martech

For example, In 2017, Apple introduced Intelligent Tracking Prevention , one of the company’s first forays into privacy-enhancing technologies, which limits the effectiveness of third-party trackers in Safari. A 2021 study from YouGov suggests that most countries are registering a maximum 60-70% cookie banner acceptance rate.

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The Future of AdTech Lies in Privacy-Enhancing Technologies (PETs)

Clearcode

Then, in the mid- to late-2000s when real-time bidding (RTB) was introduced, companies started utilizing web cookies to identify individuals across different websites. These cookies, known as third-party cookies, grew in numbers and were soon being used to identify and track millions of users across the Internet.

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Littledata Releases White Paper on Trends in First-Party Data for Ecommerce

Martech Series

The white paper, “A World Without Cookies: How ecommerce is adapting to the world of first-party data”, includes: • A brief history of first-party data, third-party data and “zero-party” data. • Since we launched our first Shopify app in 2017, a lot has changed. The current state of server-side tracking.