alt Hacker NewsGoogle gets no competitive advantage from removing third party cookies from chrome. The anticompetitive monopolistic tactic was the plan to replace third party cookies with FLoC/Privacy Sandbox/Topics AI, and THAT is what they were not prevented from doing.
No one is trying to stop google from removing third party cookies. Google is just unwilling to remove them without introducing a new anticompetitive tracking tool to replace them.
> No one is trying to stop google from removing third party cookies.
That's simply not true. As I already mentioned, the CMA presented a legal challenge which you can read about online. Please review the history, as it's been going on for years now.
https://www.gov.uk/government/news/cma-to-have-key-oversight...
https://www.marketing-beat.co.uk/2024/02/06/cma-cookies-goog...