Google Chrome update limits cookie tracking and blocks annoying notifications – Engadget

Googles Chrome 84 is now available for all desktop users after a hold-up in releases due to the coronavirus pandemic. The variation resumes the SameSite cookie modifications Google started executing with Chrome 80. If youll remember, the tech giant needed to roll the feature back a number of months after it was initially introduced in an effort to ensure that it doesnt trigger online services and portals to quit working in the middle of coronavirus– associated lockdowns.
The changes need developers to set their cookies SameSite characteristic or Google will immediately change their setting to a more protected alternative, which is something that can possibly break sites. Now that adequate time has actually passed, Google has most likely chose that it was time to impose the SameSite quality changes to avoid security issues caused by cookie vulnerabilities.