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And you see evidence of this influence throughout Chrome.

For example, Apple simply blocked third party cookies which are almost exclusively used for tracking. Chrome waited years until they could add their Advertising Sandbox feature first.




Google's competitors in the advertisement space are all lined up to sue Google into oblivion the moment they disable third-party cookies.


Why?


Because Google itself can still track people if they sign into Chrome itself (which it actively encourages by using it as single-sign on for its own services), and thus AdSense can still serve targeted ads, but other ad networks cannot.


You can see it much more clearly in the lack of an extension API on Android.

Chrome on Android is an absolute nightmare for one reason alone: No adblock.


you can disable 3rd party cookies if you want: chrome://settings/cookies




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