W3C Reiterates View on Cancelling Third-Party Cookies After Google's Move
TapTechNews July 31st news, after Google announced the shelving of the Chrome browser mandatory elimination of third-party Cookies plan, the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) released a blog post on July 29th, reiterating its view: Third-party Cookies must be cancelled.
TapTechNews note: The World Wide Web Consortium, also known as the W3C Council, is the main international standards organization for the World Wide Web and is a semi-autonomous non-governmental organization.
The W3C believes in the blog post that third-party Cookies are not conducive to the development of the web, and there are mainly the following problems:
Tracing: It can track user activities across websites,
Distributing ads: Based on the tracked data, accurately place ads and monitor user behavior
Collecting data: According to the collected sensitive information of users
The W3C said that the view of cancelling third-party Cookies has received the support of many institutions in the industry and international privacy rights organizations, and regulatory agencies such as the UK Information Commissioner's Office have also called for blocking third-party Cookies.
The W3C said that as the manager of the network architecture, its work requires it to focus on the big picture (the entire web platform) and the details (proposed functions and specifications).
The W3C strives to provide guidance to specification authors so that their new technologies can fill the gaps that need to be filled without conflicting with other parts of the web and without causing avoidable troubles for us in the future.
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