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This edition of the Cookieless Newsroom highlights Google’s announcements from 22 July, while also covering various other topics related to the cookieless landscape.

Google proposed that instead of deprecating third-party cookies for all users in Chrome, they will let users decide whether to allow third-party cookies in the browser. Google also emphasized their continued investment in the Privacy Sandbox to ensure its performance and utility.

This Cookieless Newsroom focuses on a large number of recently published Privacy Sandbox tests, but also stays on top of other important events regarding Cookieless.

Sports are obsessed with precision measurements. Sprint times are measured to the hundredth of a second; Formula One lap times go down to the thousandth. In soccer, we now have stats for every player’s pass completion, goal contributions, distance run per game, and everything else imaginable. And it’s not just professionals. Amateur athletes and casual fitness enthusiasts track every kilometer they run, average times, altitude, and carbs burnt.

It makes sense that sports brands are leaning into the data that people generate. The first valuable source of data is online browsing information. However, sports brands are looking into ways to leverage other information that users are willing to share if they believe it will improve their performance.

In this Cookieless Newsroom, read about Netflix introducing an extended approach for its programmatic strategy, publishers’ worries over The Trade Desk’s comments concerning “premium” inventory, and other recent pieces of news from the press.

Charles Simon joins the independent global AdTech company as VP of Private Advertising Standards.