The cookie is dead! Long live the… direct relationship.
Cookies were never a marketing panacea – a 2019 MIT study found that cookies from 19 different data brokers only identified gender correctly 46% of the time, less accurate than guessing randomly – though they were, at least, relatively democratic.
What follows them, now that Chrome, Google’s globally dominant web browser, Apple’s Safari, and Mozilla Firefox have all announced that they would be independently phasing out cookies, remains up for debate. Google, as ever, moved first with some high-profile splashes.
The company announced that it wouldn’t be...