Privacy Sandbox

Despite their seemingly innocent name, cookies have found themselves at the heart of one of the internet’s biggest privacy revolutions. Specifically, third-party cookies have come under fire from privacy-advocacy groups, ultimately leading Google to work towards a cookieless future. This change will have significant implications for advertisers, as third-party cookies have been an essential targeting technology since their inception.

Let’s dive into the implications of Google’s decision and how you can prepare for the cookieless future.

In this Cookieless Newsroom, you can read about RTB House’s early learnings from Privacy Sandbox’s tests, the introduction of Edge’s Privacy-Preserving Ads, regulatory bodies’ beef with the external identifiers, and many more cookieless topics.

In this Media Review, you can read about Privacy Sandbox’s General Availability, rebranding of First-Party Sets and enlarging its scale, further obstacles in the way of tracking individual users across the Internet, and regulatory updates in Europe.

We observe a confusion on the market regarding how changes to cookies will affect the user experience in retargeting. In this article, we will focus on the user’s perspective, starting the journey from the advertiser’s website through what is happening in the user’s browser, ending on the publisher’s website.

In this part of the “Media Review” series, we take a deeper look at five stories – including an analysis of the most influential stakeholders in the cookieless environment, UID 2.0 GDPR issues, and Google’s presentation of a new concept aimed at providing a privacy-preserving federated identity before third-party cookies are phased-out.

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.