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?

Web Analytics, Privacy, Technology, Cookies

12 points by fanf2 49 days ago | 4 comments

Europeans spend 575M hours clicking on cookie banners a year (substack.com)
Europeans spend 575 million hours clicking on cookie banners a year.

Europe, Privacy, Cookies, Web, User Experience

79 points by rholmes84 70 days ago | 101 comments

Analysis of economic and productivity losses caused by cookie banners in Europe (legiscope.com)
Europeans Spend 575 Million Hours Clicking Cookie Banners Every Year

Europe, Cookies, Privacy, Economics, Productivity

332 points by vegasbrianc 74 days ago | 381 comments

No same site = None cookies for iOS18 (github.com/WebKit)
iOS 18 does not allow a client application to specify SameSite=None

iOS, Web Development, Privacy, Security, Cookies

71 points by Zobat 130 days ago | 20 comments

Firefox rolls out Total Cookie Protection by default to more users (2022) (mozilla.org)

Privacy, Web Browsing, Firefox, Cookies

124 points by mikece 152 days ago | 42 comments

Third-party cookies have got to go (w3.org)

Privacy, Web Development, Cookies

67 points by botanical 182 days ago | 53 comments

Google drops plan to remove ad-tracking cookies on Chrome (apnews.com)

Google, Privacy, Cookies, Advertising, Browsers

13 points by Etheryte 188 days ago | 0 comments

Google scraps plan to remove third-party cookies from Chrome (dw.com)

Google, Chrome, Privacy, Web Browsing, Cookies

26 points by mynameiskyleok 189 days ago | 3 comments

Google says it won't be 'deprecating third-party cookies' in Chrome (digiday.com)

Google Chrome, Web Browsing, Privacy, Cookies, Advertising

4 points by mwexler 189 days ago | 0 comments

Google abandons plan to remove cookies from Chrome browser (ft.com)

Google, Chrome, Cookies, Privacy, Web Browsing

17 points by orf 189 days ago | 2 comments

Google scraps plan to remove cookies from Chrome (reuters.com)

Google, Chrome, Privacy, Cookies, Web Browsing

5 points by antipaul 189 days ago | 1 comments

Google rolls back decision to kill third-party cookies in Chrome (bleepingcomputer.com)

Google, Chrome, Cookies, Privacy, Web Browsing

10 points by da768 189 days ago | 2 comments

Google Is Keeping Cookies in Chrome After All (wsj.com)

Google, Browsers, Privacy, Cookies

70 points by ZeroCool2u 189 days ago | 13 comments

In shock decision, Google abandons third-party cookie deprecation plans (thedrum.com)

Google, Cookies, Digital Advertising, Technology, Business

9 points by whalesalad 189 days ago | 0 comments

syntaqx/cookie: Cookies, but with structs, for happiness (github.com/syntaqx)

Programming, Data Structures, Cookies, Software

16 points by syntaqx 210 days ago | 2 comments

We and our 838 partners use cookies (euronews.com)

Privacy, Cookies, Advertising, Data Collection, Partnerships

26 points by serial_dev 270 days ago | 8 comments

Google delays third-party cookie demise yet again (digiday.com)

Google, Cookies, Advertising, Privacy

162 points by Vinnl 279 days ago | 100 comments

Google Delays Cookie Phase-Out Following Regulatory Pushback (wsj.com)

Google, Cookies, Privacy, Regulation, Business

15 points by JumpCrisscross 279 days ago | 1 comments

Google delays phase-out of third-party cookies on Chrome yet again (privacysandbox.com)

Privacy, Web Browsing, Google, Cookies, Technology

30 points by coloneltcb 279 days ago | 3 comments