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So is google singlehandedly choosing which technologies get implemented and deprecated? What if my website depends on third party cookies to function? Aren't they an IETF standard and so I can expect them to be supported?

I get that third party cookies are just used for tracking nowadays, but shouldn't there be a less monopolistic way of doing so?




> So is google singlehandedly choosing which technologies get implemented and deprecated?

With Chrome's global market share at 60% (not even including other Chomium-based browsers), basically yes.


In this instance, Google is actually the last browser to deprecate third-party cookies. Apple and Mozilla disabled them in their browsers over two years ago.


IIRC, Firefox still enables them by default, albeit with some isolation added not long ago.


I think it’s pretty well established that third-party cookies are a bad idea. They’ve been turned off by default on Firefox and probably most other browsers for a while now. I can’t see when I would recommend turning them on for any user.

Just because something is standard doesn’t mean it never gets deprecated.


> What if my website depends on third party cookies to function?

You have alternatives. Login, oauth tokens, other site-specific API keys, ...

> Aren't they an IETF standard

I don't think they are required to work the way tracking worked (across sites).




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