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The CMA Is Prepared to Delay Google’s Cookie Deprecation Plans

Adweek

Competition and Markets Authority might extend the deadline on cookie deprecation if Google Chrome does not satisfy its concerns, Craig Jenkins, director of the digital markets unit at the CMA, told a room full of ad-tech practitioners at an IAB Tech Lab event in New York today. "If If we're not satisfied we can.

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In the W3C, the Post-Cookie Conversation Finds Consensus

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As the advertising industry braces itself for the deprecation of third-party cookies at the end of this year, web standards body the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is getting closer to reaching a consensus among its members on privacy-centric ad-tech that could power advertising in a cookieless future.

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Google Delays Cookie Deprecation For The Third Time

Adweek

Pack away those tired cookie crumbling metaphors until 2025, as Google has once again delayed the death of the third-party tracking cookie in its Chrome browser. This is the third reprieve Google has given cookies since it first promised to phase them out in 2020. The next year, it pushed the date back to 2023,

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Exclusive: Yahoo’s ID Testing Lets Advertisers Compare Campaigns Without Cookies

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Yahoo is helping ad buyers get ready for cookie decline. The company is letting buyers compare campaigns running with third-party cookies and identifiers against those running without, days after Google finally deprecated third-party cookies for 1% of Chrome users.

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Momentum for Testing Cookie Alternatives Stalls on the Buy Side

Adweek

While cookie deprecation threatens to upend the digital advertising economy next year, ad buyers are still taking a relaxed approach to test audience targeting alternatives. During 2023 and late 2022, ad buyers' efforts to test alternative IDs have lacked momentum, six ad-tech and publisher sources told Adweek.

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The 2024 Ad-Tech Battleground: Identity and Politics

Adweek

As we collectively wade into 2024--crafting budgets, plans and strategies for the year ahead--there are two events for which we must prepare: cookie deprecation and the U.S. If they don't get their plans in place now, political campaigns and brand advertisers will be left scrambling for impressions in the middle of the $10 billion.

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Why Testing Google’s Cookie-Alternative Privacy Sandbox Is Still Minimal

Adweek

this week is that Google Chrome's Privacy Sandbox, a pack of solutions to replace third-party cookies, is not yet ready to meet the demands of programmatic advertising. Publishers, ad-tech firms and marketers at the event pointed to vague aggregate.

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