Google sticks with tracking 'cookies'

By Agence France-Presse

Jul 24, 2024 12:20 am

Cookies are snippets of code that allow third-party companies to track Chrome users' movements across the web. Information gleaned from them is used by third-party publishers and websites to sell their own advertising.

They have been long decried by campaigners as an invasion of privacy and are tightly regulated in the European Union and elsewhere, with users asked by websites to give permission to have them deployed.

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