

through new browser APIs like trust tokens), but it’s facing heavy challenges in the forms of antitrust investigations from both the EU Commission and the UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA). Google’s plan to phase out third-party cookies in Chrome is part of a larger strategy of creating a privacy sandbox with open standards for tracking users while protecting their privacy (e.g. The damning report by Cookiebot CMP about third-party tracking on EU government and health websites from 2019 revealed that Facebook bypassed third-party cookies by instead using first-party cookies combined with a pixel tracker to ensure continued, unconsented surveillance of EU citizens.įirst-party cookies will still function by default in browsers that block third-party cookies (also in Google Chrome), and they will continue to require consent in most cases, unless the purpose of a cookie is ‘strictly necessary’ to the basic operation of a website.

Try Cookiebot consent management platform (CMP) for free today Other browsers (like Safari) have been blocking third-party cookies for years, and we’ve seen repeatedly that trackers simply resort to workarounds, other methods and new technologies that make them able to track users just the same.

