The Chrome Privacy campaign sought to intervene in Google’s reworking of advertising cookies to increase user privacy. Um….. that didn’t work. Google’s long-running “Privacy Sandbox” is more like a privacy tar pit. It does inhibit the activities of third party cookies in the browser, but only in the interests of the company itself acquiring and stockpiling more data from its web browser.
The good news? You don’t have to use Chrome. There are better options across the technology spectrum including Firefox, Safari, Brave, Opera and Vivaldi – and it is time to make the switch. We wish Google had listened because Chrome is a fast browser. But they choose to throw privacy overboard and it is time for users who care about privacy to throw Chrome overboard.
We tried. A petition with 40,000 signatures did not deter Google. Here is our short video and webinar presentation from June of 2023 before the “Sandbox” (ugh) landed.