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The Big Story: First-Party Cookie Camouflage

AdExchanger

And the latest tweak in Safari will cut down on vendors that camouflage themselves in first-party cookie The post The Big Story: First-Party Cookie Camouflage appeared first on AdExchanger. Ad tech vendors who scrape content to build contextual segments are irking publishers.

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Publishers Fear Ad Revenue Slide with First-Party Cookies Under Threat

VideoWeek

In the years since Google first announced its decision to remove third-party cookies from its Chrome browser, one consistent refrain spoken at conferences and written in think pieces is that publishers should invest in first-party data.

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It’s time to re-think our rejection of third-party cookies

Martech

Ever since Google threatened to eliminate third-party cookies, there’s been a steady drumbeat that websites should switch to first-party data, which, many say, is better anyways. What are cookies, and why do we have them? A cookie is a small text file that a website can write to your computer.

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3 future-proofing strategies for Google’s third-party cookie crackdown

Martech

After four years of anticipation, Google officially began restricting third-party cookies for 1% of Chrome users (about 30 million people) this January. This move lays the groundwork for a broader third-party cookie phaseout in the second half of 2024.

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Comic: The Cookie Pool

AdExchanger

This classic comic first ran in October 2011. The post Comic: The Cookie Pool appeared first on AdExchanger. Wishing you all a beautiful Memorial Day!

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Though cookie alternatives are out there, agencies have their issues with them all

Digiday

As agencies get more serious about finding the right third-party cookie alternatives , they are running into challenges, both old and new. Some of these include changes in audience size or measurement and standardization obstacles — and potentially even its own set of privacy questions. Continue reading this article on digiday.com.

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Goodbye to cookies: Digital advertising’s leap in the dark

Martech

Mozilla deprecated third-party cookies in its Firefox browser in 2018; Apple did the same for Safari in 2019. In January 2020 Google announced it would deprecate cookies in the Chrome browser, and here we are, more than four years later. Can we take the looming deadline to find alternatives to third-party cookies seriously?

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