▲ 416 ▼ Google gets its way, bakes a user-tracking ad platform directly into Chrome (arstechnica.com) submitted 2 years ago by floofloof@lemmy.ca to c/technology@lemmy.ml 91 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] flux@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago (1 child) I was under the impression cross-site cookies are a standard feature per the RFC, though? Or is Patreon using some kind of non-standard extension? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] nik282000@lemmy.ml 1 point 2 years ago I don't know the standard but if Google is involved you know they are going to be pushing people to use their own 'extensions' of the standard to lock both the hosts and users into their ecosystem. It's the same thing as Microsoft's ActiveX making sites IE only in the early 2000s. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] nik282000@lemmy.ml 1 point 2 years ago I don't know the standard but if Google is involved you know they are going to be pushing people to use their own 'extensions' of the standard to lock both the hosts and users into their ecosystem. It's the same thing as Microsoft's ActiveX making sites IE only in the early 2000s. permalink fedilink source parent