How the death of third-party cookies could grow Google's advertising empire
On Point with Meghna Chakrabarti
WBUR
4.3 • 3.9K Ratings
🗓️ 12 February 2024
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
Google Chrome plans to phase out cookies that track your online activity in the name of protecting privacy. But big tech also has its own interests in mind. Patience Haggin and Alan Chapell join Meghna Chakrabarti.
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| 0:00.0 | Slack presents hands-free conversations. |
| 0:03.1 | Hello, car commuter, dog walker, stroller pusher. |
| 0:06.7 | Your hands are busy. |
| 0:07.8 | It's why we created huddles in Slack, |
| 0:09.8 | because sometimes talking is easier than typing. |
| 0:12.6 | Huddle without the hassle. |
| 0:14.3 | In Slack. |
| 0:15.9 | This is on point. |
| 0:16.9 | I'm Meghachra Bardi. |
| 0:18.6 | And here's an experience you might be familiar with. |
| 0:21.8 | You're online, browsing the web, and you go to your favorite |
| 0:25.2 | store's website. You notice a nice shirt or a pair of shoes and you click on |
| 0:30.0 | them just to check it out. But you decide after some deliberation that maybe you don't need the new shirt, |
| 0:37.0 | maybe you'll just come back to it later. |
| 0:39.0 | So you head over to another website. |
| 0:42.0 | Maybe on PointRadio.org just to sort of check in on the latest high quality news analysis that you rely on. |
| 0:48.5 | Okay, sorry, I had to do that. |
| 0:50.5 | Shameful plug. |
| 0:51.5 | But the point is, as you're at that other website in the |
| 0:55.3 | middle of it as you're scrolling, suddenly you notice the same ad or you notice the |
| 1:01.2 | shirts and the shoes that you had just looked at on that clothing website and it's in the middle of your article that ad and then you notice the same ad the next day on a completely different website and then the next day and the next day and the next day maybe even into the next week. |
| 1:15.7 | That ad is stalking you all over the internet. |
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