Google Disables 30 Million Chrome User Cookies

Google has been planning to eliminate cookies for years, and today is the first of many planned quiet periods. About 30 million users, or 1% of the total, had their cookies disabled by the Chrome web browser as of this morning. Cookies will be permanently removed from Chrome by the end of the year—sort of.

Cookies are the original sin of the internet, according to privacy campaigners. For the majority of the internet’s existence, one of the main methods used by tech businesses to monitor your online activity was through cookies. Websites use cookies from third firms (like Google) for targeted adverts and many other forms of tracking.

These are referred to as “third-party cookies,” and the internet’s infrastructure includes them. They are dispersed throughout. We may have sent you cookies if you visited Gizmodo without using an ad blocker or another type of tracking protection. 

Years of negative press about privacy violations by Google, Facebook, and other internet corporations in 2019 were so widespread that Silicon Valley was forced to respond. 

Google declared that it was starting a project to remove third-party cookies from Chrome. Google gets the great bulk of its money from tracking you and displaying adverts online. Since Chrome is used by almost 60% of internet users, Google’s decision to di

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