The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) has published a blog article criticising Google's decision to abandon its plans to deprecate third-party cookies. In the article, the W3C provides examples of where such cookie usage can be beneficial but also highlights the negative implications of how third-party cookies facilitate tracking, enabling the collection of personal data across various websites and posing privacy risks to users.
The W3C also pointed out that the updated RFC defining cookies acknowledges the inherent privacy issues associated with third-party cookies, making them unreliable for web resources. Additionally, the W3C expressed concerns about the potential detrimental impact of tracking and data collection on society, particularly in relation to micro-targeting of political messages.
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