Google Chrome starts plan to disable cookies: What you need to know

CNBC's Deirdre Bosa reports on news from Google.

[@brozbro]

Whenever a tech company says they're doing something for me, they're doing something for them.

[@radicalrick9587]

*That's 100% true. They never do anything for us but take our privacy no matter how many times we tell them NO!*

[@tyarnold4088]

True

[@Leshic2]

Even more so, when they provide you their software for free.

[@ScaleScarborough-jq8zx]

Says the guy using a Google product…:)

[@brozbro]

@@ScaleScarborough-jq8zx That's a cynical remark coming from someone who doesn't understand monopolies and why they are outlawed.

[@ihopethiscommentisntabusiv4670]

Google can track users without the need of cookies via the Chrome browser itself, so this is basically just killing off the competition.

[@bubbleboy821]

Exactly what I was thinking. At the same time though, getting rid of cookies could protect tracking but then how would websites store login information? Am I going to have to login to websites every single time I close out of them now?

[@lars2894]

They're banking on the fact that US court judges don't know any of that, or even care. This is why we need Independent Supreme Federal Courts designated in dealing with certain industries like - tech, medicine, finance, etc, and loyal to serving only those industries free of outside constraint or pressure.

[@3-5-9-61]

Of course it benefits their monopolistic agenda. There needs to be a class action antitrust lawsuit to break up the monopoly.

[@Angultra]

@@bubbleboy821Chrome handles that itself via the Google Password Manager.

[@simon4133]

Sessions can be, used instead. @@bubbleboy821

[@zibbitybibbitybop]

This headline isn't quite correct: Google is disabling third party cookies, not all cookies. A website will still be able to set cookies that remain on its own site, such as for remembering user login preferences and the like.

[@Area51-lf1gw]

Bulshit google will still trace you there's an option in your web browser to block third cookies anyway

[@tullochgorum6323]

Sadly, media reporting on technical and scientific issues is rarely accurate. Lazy editing.

[@catsupchutney]

That's a big difference. I think we are already locking down cross site cookies, but we need to check on the impact here.

[@JasonRennie]

Editors don't seem to understand how big of a difference this is. It's like the US banning imports of Chinese trucks vs. making it illegal to own or use a truck in the US. 'course, 3p cookies are very important to the ad industry, but complete elimination of cookies would break approximately all web sites.

[@DaveBuildsThings]

@zibbitybibbitybop Unless you'd like to type in your bank card number every time you do online banking, then ban cookies. Cookies are just small text files your browser is asked to store so that when you go back to a site like banking, it will be able to tell the bank who are you are and then they plug in your your bank number at login. The cookie only identifies who you are. It never stores your bank card number or other sensitive info. It's the second or third party cookies that cause the grief. They are cookies that advertisers use when someone hosts one of their ads on their site. The ad adds a cookie to your browser you didn't ask for so they can track you and your shopping habits on other sites that host their ads. Best bet is to set your browser to block all second and third party cookies.

[@maximenadeau9453]

They are not disabling cookies. They are disabling cross origin cookies. This is very different. This change has been announced 4 years ago.

[@espressomatic]

Exactly. And anyone with decent security level set in their browser has already disabled them - being the default on many browsers as well. This boils down to a PR stunt in the short term.

[@RickMacmurchie]

This should have used the term ‘3rd party cookies’ throughout, Google is not blocking 1st party cookies.

[@Sammyli99]

I hope not, you should ALWAYS be allowed cookies at YOUR FIRST PARTY.

[@pedr0_m198]

@@Sammyli99 you dont know what you even typed

[@ScentlessSun]

This is an example of a company doing the right thing for the wrong reasons.

[@Gray-Today]

Google/KZbin tracks every breath you take, manipulates it, then pretends it was all your idea. I _SERIOUSLY DOUBT_ this will end.

[@jlvandat69]

"What you need to know".....never tell your audience, "this is what you need to know" since CNBC cannot read minds. In this case, the report FAILED to provide viewers with info as to how they can immediately use the new tool in Chrome and disable cookies.

[@williamelewis464]

Because it’s not available to about 89% of the US currently, how stupid would you feel to not have heard not only what she said but the meaning of those words…like at all

[@jlvandat69]

@@williamelewis464 Actually, cookies ca be disabled by anyone using chrome: Open the Chrome browser Click the menu icon in the upper-right corner Select Settings Select Privacy and security Click Cookies and other site data Under General settings, select Block all cookies. You're welcome, and see a shrink ASAP about that nasty desire to insult those you don't know. It's curable.

[@steveanimatrix3887]

With pixel tracking and browser fingerprinting, you don't need cookies to do track people all over the web. This is really just to hurt their competition.

[@MAtildaMortuaryserver]

Advertising kills every platform it touches. I stopped listening to radio in the 1990's, I got rid of commercial TV in 2006, and all TV by 2016. Now they are busy killing the internet. I will not be subjected to ads. And most especially to the endless nauseating prescription drug infomercial length ads. Madison Avenue can stuff it, they used to have an occasional decent ad but then buried those in sheer volumes of stupidity. I was at the neighbor's last night and they had news on, it was utter garbage, nearly all short vid clips I had already seen here at KZbin but stuffed full of so many ads I would forget that the news was actually the program on the air. Amazon recently raised prices for Prime and I would not pay it if it were not for the free shipping, now this week they say they are giving themselves a huge new increase but with ads or you can pay even more and go ad free. So this month I will be letting them know I do not approve and will cancel Amazon Prime, I will not pay more and I will not see those moronic sickening ads. If it means reading books as my only form of entertainment then I welcome that.

[@mikedennington8856]

The internet is now a place for advertisers and scammers, it is sickening.

[@crazboy84]

When was it not?

[@Novastar.SaberCombat]

@@crazboy84 A pretty gaedamn long time ago. Late 80's, early 90's. When "Mozilla" was literally brand new, and NETSCAPE (yup) was just popping into existence. I know, because I used to work at Netscape for a brief stretch. What a bizarre world it's all become since the Apple II, dial-up modems, AOL, and Netscape. :/ Sheesh.

[@grahamnichols1416]

Now? It has always been that way. The lack of enforced regulation has screwed us all.

[@23merlino]

@@crazboy84 - web 1.0

[@DonaldDucksRevenge]

The commenters below OP probably came online with smartphones. The 90's Internet was academic, scientific, literate, and barely commercial. I miss it.

[@chucksucks8640]

Google has probably thought of something better than cookies and is disabling them in their browser just to hurt their competitors. The other issue is is that google probably disabled users setting cookie policy and chrome is hard wired to only accept google cookies.

[@babybirdhome]

When Google writes the browser, they don’t need any cookies to know where you’re going - you’re literally going everywhere using Google’s browser. You can’t go anywhere without it knowing where you’re going. It’s like if you drive a car - you can’t go anywhere in your car without your car going there with you. If you drive your car anywhere, your car will be wherever you drive it. It can’t be any other way.

[@longbeach225]

@@babybirdhome That is why my prefer browser is Brave!

[@onespeedlite]

Santa: "No more cookies? I won't be visiting your house next Christmas!."

[@robertmariano]

Oh. Hahahahahahahahaha!

[@unadomandaperte]

For the 10 or so years I'm using the internet, I've never seen ads that are relevant to the things I search or watch. But we do get a lot of ads though.

[@boltonky]

They have enough of your information from everywhere else, an its near impossible to disable cookies as a whole because its a fundamental design on most of the visible internet. What needs to happen is international laws governing the information people/companies are allowed to keep or track. - don't forget the internet most people see is less an 1% of what exists

[@rafalcyran8720]

Don't GAF about adverts, and tracking copmpanies, less ADs = Better. They need to be outlawed.

[@gprojectnoob4779]

They dont need to track you through cookies when they track you using Ai. They wouldn't get rid of cookies unless they have an improved way to track you.

[@sommmeguy]

Yay. Imagine in a free market that products are what the consumer actually wants. Maybe someday they'll even stop predatory algorithms on social media!

[@AtomicBuffalo]

You're the product.

[@TheRealEtaoinShrdlu]

Capitalism needs to be fixed or replaced for this to ever happen.

[@bhupindertube]

If you live in the EU/UK, you'll get a message saying accept or reject cookies. I always reject. So, hopefully, it won't be there in the first place to reject it. I think google is forced by EU indirectly to unplug cookies for good. That's what consumers want. In this way, more people will prefer Chrome and it'll also then force other browsers to do the same. It's just common sense.

[@Leshic2]

Browser builders want to be the sole owners of your private information. They don't want their competitors to also have your behavioral information online too. Only them. There have been newer, sneakier strategies to track you for a number of years now. They still track you, even w/o cookies.

[@donwinston]

You are making silly unsubstantiated assumptions. Most people like the fact that a business knows some information about them so they can give them a better browsing experience.

[@bhupindertube]

@@donwinston it's an untidy way of collecting data (cookies) with security vulnerabilities. We all are better off without them. In the end of the day, most people go to google for ads so meanwhile why not to keep them clean. My only fear is that, now more & more sites might ask you to login instead to compensate for cookies.

[@donwinston]

@@bhupindertube It is silly to be concerned that someone knows you like pistachio ice cream.

[@Bhethar]

The EU were considering changing all tracking by making it off by default and opt in only. Google probably want to be ahead of the curve. They don’t need cookies to track you anymore, chrome can read your keystrokes, record audio, monitor mouse movements and they also use Google elements on websites to track you. Cookies are just being replaced with more advanced anti privacy systems that you cannot opt out of. Than again, the EU seems to have noticed this already so who knows what will happen in the future…

[@blankseventydrei]

still skeptical, I am sure Google will profit from this some how..

[@Rovsau]

Regardless of what's up or down in this case, just outright telling people these things without reflecting both sides of the actual argument, is a failure of journalism. I'd like to see someone worth their salt, with some reputation to stake, be the one to tell us what we need to know.

[@BayuAH]

You can't login without cookies. Did you means third party cookies right? Firefox already doing this with so called super cookies blocker for years already. This is just Chrome that really late for the chances.

[@JMcMillen]

I certainly won't miss seeing advertisements for things I've already bought.

[@userbosco]

We need personal data protection laws like EU. All those agreements we blindly sign that give away our right to maintain our own data should be illegal.

[@mytravls]

Right now, my biggest concern is how does my phone pick up autocorrect on the items that I only talk about.

[@ScaleScarborough-jq8zx]

Let’s all pretend to be as innocent as children! Weeee

You agreed for this on page 157 of android EULA.

[@starpravesh]

As a developer, this is surprisingly good news. Cookies are plagued with security vulnerabilities and just bad design from the past. The newer approaches of local storage and session storage replace Cookies without its cons.

[@steveanimatrix3887]

and browser fingerprinting and pixel tracking. Just don't need cookies to track people anymore.

[@Ackermanmedia]

Agree man I hate them. They are responsible for most of corporate tech support problems. I hate them and I have lost all trust in TECH so accepting them becomes very difficult to do. You think Google used cookies and the recent changes where we must "accept" them as we go to different sites. If you accept the cookies they can do anything they want to your machine.

[@Leshic2]

@@steveanimatrix3887 Exactly. Most people aren't aware of these fingerprinting strategies. When ever I see, "We care about your privacy", I want to vomit.

[@donwinston]

Cookies are not less secure. Session IDs are normally stored in a cookie. Without cookies you'd have to put the session ID in the URL. This is less secure. Cookies can easily be secured using CSRF checks, same site property, and the http only property.

[@gzoechi]

​@@AckermanmediaThe alternatives won't be better

[@hoodrooster224]

Oh, you just bought a new refrigerator for your kitchen? May we suggest another new refrigerator for your kitchen!

[@RM_VFX]

Realistically, if you didn't buy the pajamas, you probably never will. Nagging me about it is just annoying.

[@raw_si_siht]

Well, quit thinking of pajamas, and they won't come up.

[@nathanjamesbaker]

I found the last 30 seconds of this video to be an incomprehensible word salad.

[@j3dwin]

Ozzy Osbourne is more coherent.

[@LokiDaFerret]

From a tech perspective this is completely inaccurate. I'm a developer. Cookies are not being phased out!! But a certain type of cookie known as a "cross site" cookie is. So the general message is accurate but the terminology they use is not.

[@raw_si_siht]

Sounds like everything the media reports on. Halve truths and propaganda.

[@robr177]

Developers will just come up with a different way, such as using browser history. Nothing will change.

[@Leshic2]

"Super-cookies" "Browser & PC fingerprinting" "voice recognition tracking" "facial recognition tracking in stores"

[@billmago7991]

The dumb thing about the cookies is that after i bought stuff on the net i would get advertising for the product i had already bought

[@Sammyli99]

ONLY, and you're like: right!!!,---- come back in 3/5/10 years bud.

[@_virendrasingh]

When you've put ai direct into the OS and chrome... There's no need to do anything to steal the personal data. Nothing positive happens for the privacy of the users ever.

[@Always_Thinking]

It's crazy to believe that Google would do anything that ultimately does not benefit them in a big way regardless of how they spin it! Imo

[@Fac3bon3s]

Companies aren't paying google enough for this service is why its being cut. Not because Google can't use it themselves.

[@edens7203]

crazy how google still leak people’s addresses :))

[@alunjones2550]

We don't need the level of spying we currently have. This is great news. All web sites should be free of cookies. I have even not bought products on-line that I would have done simply because I was annoyed at a web sites' deliberately difficult process of turning off cookies.

[@missulu]

We never used them, people don't need to be treated like sheep!

[@DarisT-qc1fw]

If you think that they are doing this for the consumer and not for their own profits, you're adorable.

[@biggerburke]

"If you're not paying for the product, then YOU are the product"

[@mbbno]

I stopped using chrome after google started breaking ad blockers. Ads online are out of control.

[@robertholtz]

This video is fraught with inaccuracies.

[@rgen28]

I guess it doesn’t matter for those who use Ad blockers.

[@leonidas14775]

Cookies aren't inherently bad; implying they're just to track users is an oversimplification. I.e to store their login session between closing and opening the browser. It would be better to let users download blocklists of certain cookies to prevent tracking, and allow useful ones

[@IsleOfFeldspar]

I just wish the huge cookie popups would go away forever. It makes sites so annoying to use.

[@Coast2CoastTuber]

I thought it was the microphone on my phone that hear me talking about pajamas.

[@old-gamer-01]

WOOOOW!!!! ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤ Don't be evil!!! Life changing news!!! 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

[@AbNomal621]

Google isn’t protecting its users. It is protecting its revenue stream.

[@kevinbergin9971]

Remember the term "Black Hat"? Once they started down that path you know it was going here too.

[@CA-tk8yn]

Someone somewhere is using these cookies to sell others my tracking, cause I get ads that I try to get rid of but they pop back up, that are offensive. I'm the only one on my laptop, and my connections are secure. This could only be coming from this, so I'm glad something's being done about the out of control internet. Every stroke leads to an attempt to manipulate money out of me through a lot of lies. I see too many lies, so maybe this stops some of that as well.

[@Leshic2]

Nope. It won't. There are already super-cookies strategies that track you, that can't be removed easily. You are tracked by your voice, from your phone and other phones around you, to your PC. You are tracked by your face from 3rd party cameras at retail stores, back to your PC. I've documented many of these happening to myself, several times, over the last 24 months.

[@dhillaz]

Tracking can still be performed without cookies. Browser fingerprinting, tracking pixels and embedded scripts are some examples.

[@tvviewer4500]

Just means they found something even better to track people

[@randyscrafts8575]

This is a good thing. Maybe google can stop reading my mind also. Sometines I just "think" about something, never said a word, then it pops up in the ad's online.

[@user-zu5do6ri6r]

Google still tracks our use. It's just changing who is allowed access to the new "cookies".

[@politicsuncensored5617]

People are tired of being tracked like criminals and bombarded by ads for things they don't want. Hint, hint youtube. Shalom

[@CheveraChino]

But they will listen to your conversations.

[@sidensvans67]

Google is an advertising Corporation masquerading as a Search Engine .

[@redrockpaco]

Oh my. What horrible news! What ever will Google do without cookies. Yikesies! But hey here’s a suggestion, maybe try advertising the old fashioned way. You know that way? They way where our privacy was not invaded? And where you found the perfect media outlets to maximize impressions? Call me crazy but it’s certainly worth a feasibility study or maybe even a white paper.

[@user-zp7jp1vk2i]

smarten up the damn search; I wanted to know if Wawei (the Chairman) held in Vancouver near my son, and then I got all these pushes for phones form the company. So the tracking doesn't DISCERN and isn't that smart.

[@ronkirk5099]

I don't buy ANYTHING I see on internet ads ever. period so Google is wasting their cookies on me.

[@byssmal]

I just want my chrome incognito works like what google had advertised.

[@dirtpunk3754]

Because they can now sell to those same marketers. You’re naive if you believe they will track you less.

[@BrianBorges-ez3ls]

Hey CNBC! A heads up: The lead-in ad to this vid was an updated AI Elon Musk $250 Financial Scam ad. Perhaps, rather than worrying about cookies, KZbin should pull its head out its butt and screen ads before they use them? 🙄

[@manwithnoname3454]

Let's make advertising illegal

[@ScentlessSun]

Please… it’s ruining the Internet and more broadly society.

[@mreboric8406]

They have proprietary tech that allows them to monitor you without cookies so now they are attempting to limit other company's that don't have that techs monitoring capability's to give themselves an edge over the competition. They want to be know to all advertisers as the only viable option.

[@taakelur]

Surprised they didn't mention Google's replacement for 3rd party cookies: Privacy Sandbox. It's just as bad.

[@svettnabb]

“Dada” is always gold

[@systemdeadlock]

What about biscuits?

[@truth-12345.]

They did this because they can just use web crawlers to gather data from any website you visit, but how do the websites I usually visit store my login token when I login to their site?

[@codelinx]

Google is creating a monopoly on ads ... It's wild that the government isn't stepping into on this

[@raw_si_siht]

Government; do something for the people? What century are you in?

[@ByteMyNPC]

Politicians do campaign ads. Why would they ‘step in’

[@neiliewheeliebin]

I'm part of the 1% its currently being rolled out to, im not seeing any noticeable difference so far which is probably a good thing

[@craigroaring]

I've spent years googling stuff i'm not interested in just to confuse the algorithm. Google thinks i'm an incontinent old lady.

[@josephsmith594]

Every time I start seeing the same ads on multiple sites I clear my cache and history. It’s just too creepy.

[@northvanwan7428]

use a different browser.

[@josephsmith594]

@@northvanwan7428 You can also set your browser to save nothing.

[@tommyl5319]

CNBC, with all the tech speak rambling here, could you not take 2 seconds to clarify which cookies you're talking about? They're not removing ALL cookies, so this report is incredibly misleading.

[@blackmancer]

They don't want it!!!.... Because they already know who you are.

[@tomtharos4440]

That’s why I don’t use Google, or Chrome, or Firefox.

[@jonmars9559]

I disabled cookies a long time ago because I don't like being tracked. I don't mind Google disabling cookies at all. I just don't know what their overall plan is to continue targeted advertising and why?

[@em0jr]

Only if the Brave browser got this type of attention.

[@Goldbear6969]

Google ad will be exempted from it

[@mho...]

Long live the ad & cookie blockers! only reason i ditched TV was to finally being free of commercials!, and its hard work, not to see stupid ads everywhere! , so i dont mind getting rid of all these damn trackers! .... *Hooray for anonymity!*

[@Tman76]

Good. Why do you need adds for something you did a search for when you already bought what you looked for.

[@Zedster88]

They are not getting rid of cookies without a bigger better backup plan

[@codelinx]

This reporter is clueless and just retired to spin this story... Stop it whomever you are.

[@stepup898]

Regularly search things you have absolutely no interest whatsoever to spoof the algorithms.

[@johnbrown6189]

Cookies out, AI in.

[@richardh8082]

I didn't understand a word , so I still don't know if I need to know this

[@Motionpictures-op2pi]

I have a very bad Google stalker very serious. Please can someone help. ? I can't even keep an account.

[@jeanp.5929]

try contacting google maybe

[@roymichaeldeanable]

Don't use Google...use another Search engine...get a VPN

[@lfzhu586]

Yeah..99% of websites won't work without use of any cookies

[@TheHandsomeman]

Subscription model, are the key words in this report.?

[@theprecipiceofreason]

Another google monopoly. At least there's only one source so it's easier to hold them 'accountable'. They'll just throw endless money at all the accusations, however.

[@pervertt]

Just as well I stopped using Chrome as a browser ages ago.

[@samyeung122]

really, only 30M Chrome browser users only?

[@xLess_than_1x]

My cookies Literally keep getting lost. I have to Log in EVERYWHERE every time i close my browser. EVERY TIME.

[@mercster]

Cookies aren't just used for nefarious consumer/ad tracking, though. Cookies hold a whole host of information about your settings on the site. How is this going to affect those? How will websites save your settings?

[@Thejohnnyoshow]

The reporters are not really explaining this. All that Google is doing is no longer using cookies to track you when using the Chrome browser. Because you are probably already logged in with the browser when using Chrome, they track you directly with the browser and don't even need cookies. They are not actually removing cookie support from the browser.

[@kalaster189]

Google is also blocking the use of adblockers later this year…

[@ClosestNearUtopia]

Oh yeah.. lets pretent we not going to track you. Did you looked into the protocol google wants to launch as a standard? Aka being a man in the middle, listening to your internet connection, basically knowing it all, so there would be no need for cookie’s.. HUGE SCAM!

[@chulieho]

if we want to buy something we will just go buy it

[@LivingAwake]

Why ask for acknowledgement when you can take it for free. Google will just sell it to the companies without all the steps, while also looking like the good guy. Duck Duck Go.

[@anadventfollower1181]

That's because AI will be taking its place, which will be insanely efficient compared to 'cookies'. This country (like the country above where I'm from and is far worse) is like China, but everyone is 'free-ranged', and gets to walk around with a megaphone...

[@Scapestoat]

"It comes a few years after Apple did something similar". Sure, ignore Firefox. :V