Restrictions on how websites and advertisers track us around the web are coming, because web browsers — which already block the most invasive types of cookies by default — are cracking down.
Version 80 of Chrome has come to the stable channel of the browser, and with it, a change in the way cookies are handled. As the cookies crumble, it turns out, so does the Internet, with Google saying it hopes that it will cause only “a modest amount of breakage”…
Touring around the pages of the web isn’t always the one-way street you might think it is: most sites are eager to leave a calling card or two on your local machine in the form of cookies. Here we’ll lay out what’s being saved in your browser, why it makes…