Google May Replace Cookies With Unique AdIDs

Posted by timothy on Friday September 20, 2013 @12:20PM from the would-smell-as-sweet dept.

markjhood2003 writes "According to a story published in USA Today, an anonymous source at Google familiar with the plan has revealed that Google is developing an anonymous identifier for advertising tracking, replacing the function of third party cookies currently used by most major advertisers. The new AdID supposedly gives consumers more privacy and control over their web browsing, but the ad industry is worried about putting more power in the hands of large technology companies. Sounds like the idea could have some promise, but at this point the proposal is not public so we will probably have to wait until Google reaches out to the industry, government and consumers to provide the details."

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Re:Oh really? by PopeRatzo · 2013-09-20 13:44 · Score: 0, Offtopic

Except Slashdotters really do believe that sort of discourse is productive. Or at least worthy of a shit post.
No. If they did, it wouldn't have been modded "Troll".
People who are on Slashdot and then act judgmental about "Slashdotters" have a distinct lack of self-awareness. Otherwise, instead of saying "Slashdotters...", they would say, "we...".

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