Welcome to the Tech Mem Ride Home for Wednesday, May 8th, 2019. I'm Brian McCullough today.

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Here's what you missed today in the world of Tech.

A Tech conference is not just the keynote of course and among the more in the

weeds news to come out of Google's I.O is the announcement that Google will soon

be adding anti-finger printing tech to Chrome going forward.

Devs must now explicitly opt in for cookies that are meant to be used across websites.

Again, this sounds in the weeds, but it's super important.

Quoting from Tech Crunch. The overall idea here is to provide users with more control

over how their data is shared.

While cookies are very useful to allow you to keep a persistent

login to a site or store your preferences, for example,

they are also being used to track you across the web. Few users, however, would want to block all of their

cookies and lose their conveniences. The compromise here is to only allow the site that

originally set the cookie to access it and block third-party cookies,

making it harder for others to track you using these cookies.

To do this, Chrome will move to require developers to explicitly allow their cookies

to be used across websites.

Using the same site cookie attribute developers have to explicitly opt in to

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