[rektide]

news in the past two weeks has been of eu antitrust actions over issues including this 3rd party cookies change, and uk demanding their regulators get veto power over changing 3rd party cookies.

google is trying to escape a colossal regulatory hellfire that has sprung up in the last two weeks over this attempt to do the right thing, that other browsers already do. shit has just gone defcon4 & they are adding time to the doomsday clock that various national & supranational powers have just set ticking. set ticking for doing the right thing. scratch that, for having said they would be doing the right thing, hereby rescinded.

mark Nottingham wrote up some of these new regulatory regimes being imposed on Google on Monday: https://www.mnot.net/blog/2021/06/21/standards-competition-g... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27578618

[tristor]

Regulators aren’t concerned with Google blocking third party cookies, they’re concerned about it in conjunction with FLoC providing Google an anti-competitive moat in the adtech space where it also holds a dominant position.

If Google blocked third party cookies absent FLoC, regulators wouldn’t care.

[loudtieblahblah]

Google is not doing the right thing.

They're solidifying control over the web.