Google delays telling us all to go FLoC ourselves
Google extended the timeline it set over a year ago on the end of cookie use allowed in the Chrome browser. Why? The reasons are optics, operational, obeisance, and ontological.
Read MoreMaking sense of the always-on media memesphere
There is a screen at every turn. And on each screen there are images, sounds, messages. What to buy, what to think, what to be, how to live. This is a place where a mediologist attempts to make sense of a media-dominated world and find a path to how media impacts business and culture.
Google extended the timeline it set over a year ago on the end of cookie use allowed in the Chrome browser. Why? The reasons are optics, operational, obeisance, and ontological.
Read MoreThis week Google's David Temkin said that they don't plan on developing or using alternative identifiers. No more new tricks to tracking and targeting audiences. What does this mean? Has Google decided this to enhance its image as a good corporate citizen? To ante up on the initial "don't be evil" ethos the company advocated? To be proactively compliant with the growing regulation governments seek to impose of use of personal data? Or does this just mean they’ve got optics on enough of the media universe to effectively own it?
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