Google has introduced a new feature into Chrome that helps companies track you.
First-Party Sets (FPS) lets multiple sites group up to share user activity. Effectively, one site can track you across all the sites in its set without your knowledge or consent.
First-Party Sets (FPS) lets multiple sites group up to share user activity. Effectively, one site can track you across all the sites in its set without your knowledge or consent.
In other words, the sites would decide their own privacy boundaries, in a way that’s opaque to users and ignores their needs and concerns.
First-Party Sets would shift Web privacy control and agency from users to websites. brave.com
First-Party Sets would shift Web privacy control and agency from users to websites. brave.com
Google states First-Party Sets will improve privacy by enabling Google to finally block third-party cookies in Chrome.
But even if Chrome did start blocking third-party cookies (it has not), it would be simply replacing one threat to your privacy with another with FPS.
But even if Chrome did start blocking third-party cookies (it has not), it would be simply replacing one threat to your privacy with another with FPS.
The best way to protect your privacy is to use a browser like Brave that blocks third-party cookies and other trackers by default. brave.com
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