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Google rolls back Chrome feature that blocks cross-site tracking

Google is in short rolling once more a serve as it offered with Chrome 80 to make sure it does now not harm internet websites in the course of the coronavirus pandemic. Again in February, the tech huge started enforcing a brand spanking new cookie classification system that was once designed to block cross-site tracking on Chrome so that you might want to prevent unhealthy actors from exploiting cookie vulnerabilities.
Google is temporarily rolling back a feature it launched with Chrome 80 to make sure it doesn't break websites in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic. Back in February, the tech giant started enforcing a new cookie classification system that was designed to block cross-site tracking on Chrome in an effort to prevent bad actors from exploiting cookie vulnerabilities.

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