Hacker News with Generative AI: Cookies

Counting unique web site visitors without using cookies, UIDs, or fingerprinting (normally.com)
Building a web analytics service without cookies poses a tricky problem: How do you distinguish unique visitors?
Europeans spend 575M hours clicking on cookie banners a year (substack.com)
Europeans spend 575 million hours clicking on cookie banners a year.
Analysis of economic and productivity losses caused by cookie banners in Europe (legiscope.com)
Europeans Spend 575 Million Hours Clicking Cookie Banners Every Year
No same site = None cookies for iOS18 (github.com/WebKit)
iOS 18 does not allow a client application to specify SameSite=None
Firefox rolls out Total Cookie Protection by default to more users (2022) (mozilla.org)
Third-party cookies have got to go (w3.org)
Google drops plan to remove ad-tracking cookies on Chrome (apnews.com)
Google scraps plan to remove third-party cookies from Chrome (dw.com)
Google says it won't be 'deprecating third-party cookies' in Chrome (digiday.com)
Google abandons plan to remove cookies from Chrome browser (ft.com)
Google scraps plan to remove cookies from Chrome (reuters.com)
Google rolls back decision to kill third-party cookies in Chrome (bleepingcomputer.com)
Google Is Keeping Cookies in Chrome After All (wsj.com)
In shock decision, Google abandons third-party cookie deprecation plans (thedrum.com)
syntaqx/cookie: Cookies, but with structs, for happiness (github.com/syntaqx)
We and our 838 partners use cookies (euronews.com)
Google delays third-party cookie demise yet again (digiday.com)
Google Delays Cookie Phase-Out Following Regulatory Pushback (wsj.com)
Google delays phase-out of third-party cookies on Chrome yet again (privacysandbox.com)