RTB House Editorial Team

In this Media Review, we bring together 4 stories, including the positive reception for FLEDGE, the French privacy regulator fining a game developer for leveraging IDFV (Identifier For Vendors), and the European Center for Digital Rights unifying the “dark patterns” interpretation in terms of cookie consent pop-up windows.

It might have been delayed, but the end of third-party tracking cookies is coming at the beginning of 2025, and businesses can’t afford to keep pretending otherwise. The good news is that thanks to this delay, there is still a small window of opportunity for companies to prepare for the cookieless future by engaging with the Google Chrome Privacy Sandbox.

Have you heard of Seller-Defined Audiences (SDA) yet? SDA was released at the beginning of 2022 by Project Rearc – an initiative that came to life as the IAB Tech Lab’s answer to the impending demise of 3rd-party cookies. Although a year hasn’t passed since its release, SDA has received significant attention in the press and industry conferences and is considered one of the go-to solutions for targeting when the 3rd-party cookie pond dries up.

In this Cookieless Newsroom, you can read about the recently released Privacy Sandbox commitments report by CMA, Privacy Sandbox GAP analysis report, and many more cookieless topics. There has been a whole lot happening around cookieless in the last few years. However, as Chrome deprived the first batch of its users of third-party cookies, cookieless-related activity in MarTech intensified. That’s why we decided to change the format of our updates, so that you’re supplied with more information in a more concise manner. On top of that, we rebranded our regular publications of “Cookieless Newsroom” to better reflect our mission behind creating them. We sincerely hope they’ll help you stay informed in the ever-changing cookieless era.

In this Media Review, you can find out more about the testing progress of FLEDGE, the green light for the joint venture creation of TrustPID—a digital ad platform (by Deutsche Telekom, Orange, Telefonica, and Vodafone), the Privacy Sandbox Beta coming to Android and more.

In this Cookieless Newsroom, you can read about the recently announced third postponement of the third-party cookies deprecation, the freshest Privacy Sandbox commitments report by CMA, and more cookieless topics.