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Google’s cookie pivot leaves 88% of industry in uncertainty: IAB

Martech

Google’s pivot on deprecating third-party cookies has caused uncertainty in the digital advertising industry. Navigating the uncertainty A recent IAB study shows that 88% of industry professionals feel Google’s decision to reverse the phase-out of third-party cookies has caused major confusion in digital advertising.

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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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Why your marketing strategy should still be cookie-less despite Google’s shift

Martech

For years, this meant relying on third-party data, mainly cookies, as the backbone of brand connection strategies. In 2020, privacy concerns prompted Google to plan to remove cookies in Chrome with a deadline that was continually moved back, regularly sending panic waves through the marketing world.

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Some Cookieless Alternatives … Still Use Cookies

Adweek

Brands are facing some pressure to test alternatives for targeting and measuring audiences once third-party cookies on Chrome disappear, scheduled for the end of this year. The use.

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Google’s Cookie-less Future Is Probably Not Happening

Adweek

Google, which has been asserting since 2020 that it would stop passing third-party cookies in the Chrome browser, is planning to abandon that course. In a blog post published today, the tech giant said that given the amount of work it would take to move away from cookies, and the amount of impact it would.

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What’s next for Google’s third-party cookie saga?

Martech

Google’s decision to leave third-party cookies up to the user was the latest twist in a long saga for the online advertising industry. And there’s plenty of online advertising being done without third-party cookies, which were previously removed from other browsers and platforms. But it won’t be the last. Processing.

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Mixed reactions from ad ecosystem to Google keeping cookies

Martech

After years of back and forth between Google and regulatory bodies, the news finally came that Google is scrapping plans to kill third-party cookies in Chrome. By delaying the depreciation of cookies, Google buys itself time to either refine the Privacy Sandbox or to make its implications less transparent.

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