Weimo takes alleged vandals to court.

From American public media, this is Marketplace Tech.

I'm Lily Dramale. It is

Friday which means it's time for Marketplace Tech Bites week in review.

On the show today, the ascent of Vice President

Kamala Harris to the top of the Democratic Party ticket has stirred the k-hive.

We'll look at what the Harris memes mean in case you just fell out of a coconut tree.

Plus why Weimo is suing alleged vandals of its vehicles in San Francisco?

We ask why now?

But first, cookies are here to stay for a while anyway. Google is

backtracking on its plan announced in 2020 to do away with the files that

advertisers use to track us online.

Parese de Vé, senior writer at Wired magazine, joined me to explain.

Google proposed a number of ideas inside the Chrome browser new features basically that would allow

advertisers and other you know other entities on the web to continue to kind of track people but like in a slightly more private

manner where we're kind of lost in a crowd of people and it was just hard for it to

for other companies to implement in a way that made sense and Google itself was struggling to sort of

come up with better ideas but make no mistake better technologies are coming and cookies will eventually go away in my view.

Yeah well let's continue that look forward.

Google is tabling this. We get that. What now is I think what some of us are wondering about they

talk about an updated approach that quote elevates user choice what does that

mean and what does it mean for consumers?

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