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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
World
Saqib Shah

Google starts blocking cookies that track your data across sites

Google is finally starting to block third-party cookies for internet users after years of delays, opposition and regulatory wrangling.

To begin with, only a random 1 percent of Chrome users globally will get a new web browsing feature called Tracking Protection. The update will restrict third-party cookies by default on websites, limiting their ability to track people across the web. Third-party cookies are those that are put on the site the user is looking at by someone other than the website operator.

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