BBC:
Justin Schuh, Google’s director of Chrome engineering, said in a blogpost: ”Users are demanding greater privacy – including transparency, choice and control over how their data is used – and it’s clear the web ecosystem needs to evolve to meet these increasing demands.”
Third-party cookies, which follow users from site to site tracing their browsing habits, have also been banned by Apple, Microsoft and Mozilla.
Websites will still be able to use their own first-party cookies to track users.