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Latest news, posts, and updates on Privacy Sandbox.

Introducing a new FedCM UI for displaying filtered out accounts in Chrome 133.

  • Federated Credential Management API
  • Web
  • Privacy Sandbox

Natalia Markoborodova

February 6, 2025

Chrome 133 introduces support for Storage Access HTTP headers

  • Storage Access API
  • Web
  • Blog
  • JavaScript
  • Privacy Sandbox

Natalia Markoborodova

January 29, 2025

For sites that need time to adjust to third-party partitioning of storage, service workers, and communication APIs, the deprecation trial has been extended once more to allow them to temporarily keep their third-party storage, service workers, and communication APIs unpartitioned.

  • Privacy Sandbox

Mike Taylor, Ari Chivukula

January 6, 2025

Chrome introduces Shared Storage updates including support for cross-origin worklet scripts and updates to the Select URL API with Shared Storage in Chrome 132 with the support of saved queries.

  • Shared Storage API
  • Web
  • JavaScript
  • Privacy Sandbox

Tara Agyemang

December 18, 2024

Chrome 132 introduces multiple FedCM updates including the Mode API for better user control and the Continuation API for flexible multi-step sign-in flows.

  • Federated Credential Management API
  • Web
  • Privacy Sandbox

Natalia Markoborodova

December 10, 2024

Android WebView will take the next step in reducing the information available in the User-Agent string, to improve privacy for users. With this change, websites and services that rely on the User-Agent string for certain information may need to take action. This post gives some background on what's happening, why WebView is making this change, and what you can do to prepare.

  • Privacy Sandbox

Mike Taylor, Mihai Cirlanaru

December 6, 2024

From Chrome 132, developers can participate in a Developer Trial for Partitioned Popins, a new approach to web pop-ups.

  • Web
  • Blog
  • Privacy Sandbox

Natalia Markoborodova

November 20, 2024

Chrome 131 integrates the Storage Access API with FedCM, where FedCM is used as a trust signal to automatically grant storage access.

  • Federated Credential Management API
  • Storage Access API
  • Web
  • Blog
  • Privacy Sandbox

Natalia Markoborodova

November 15, 2024

Sharing updates on the Aggregation Service coordinators, and results of an independent security assessment.

  • Privacy Sandbox

Renan Feldman

November 14, 2024

Chrome 130 starts an origin trial for HTTP headers logic for Storage Access API.

  • Storage Access API
  • Web
  • Blog
  • JavaScript
  • Privacy Sandbox

Natalia Markoborodova

October 14, 2024

Chrome is providing a lookup service to show how third-party cookie availability is affected by Chrome's third-party cookie grace period, and grace period opt-out configuration.

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Sam Dutton

October 8, 2024

Chrome's Topics API update lets users proactively block ad topics, giving them more control over their ad experience.

  • Web
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Natalia Markoborodova

September 9, 2024

Chrome is extending the grace period that allows sites and services demonstrating user-facing, non-ads breakage to continue to access third-party cookies.

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Sam Dutton

August 26, 2024

Chrome 128 starts an origin trial for Multi IdP API on desktop, as well as origin trial for the Button Mode API and Continuation Bundle features for Chrome on Android.

  • Federated Credential Management API
  • Web
  • JavaScript
  • Privacy Sandbox

Natalia Markoborodova

July 24, 2024

For sites taking part in either of the third-party cookie deprecation trials, Chrome provides a grace period to temporarily re-enable third-party cookies. During the grace period, sites can access third-party cookies in Chrome, even if they haven't yet deployed trial tokens. Chrome is now providing a mechanism to allow sites to opt out of the grace period for a percentage of users.

  • Privacy Sandbox

Sam Dutton

June 14, 2024

Chrome 126 starts origin trials for the Continuation API bundle and Storage Access API auto-grant

  • Federated Credential Management API
  • Web
  • JavaScript
  • Privacy Sandbox

Eiji Kitamura

June 11, 2024

From July 1, 2024, sites and services that have registered for one of the third-party cookie deprecation trials will receive a grace period of 60 days to deploy trial tokens, starting from the date their trial registration was approved.

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Sam Dutton

June 10, 2024

For sites that need time to adjust to third-party partitioning of storage, service workers, and communication APIs, the deprecation trial has been extended to allow them to temporarily keep their third-party storage, service workers, and communication APIs unpartitioned.

  • Privacy Sandbox

Mike Taylor

May 25, 2024

The Privacy Sandbox team was at Google I/O 2024 to share the latest news on third-party cookie deprecation

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Sam Dutton

May 23, 2024

Chrome 125 starts an origin trial for Button Mode API and updates to CORS and SameSite.

  • Federated Credential Management API
  • Web
  • JavaScript
  • Privacy Sandbox

Eiji Kitamura

April 17, 2024

The grace period for Chrome's third-party cookie deprecation trials is being extended until June 30, 2024.

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Sam Dutton

March 13, 2024

Chrome 123 introduces FedCM Domain Hint API. With the Domain Hint API, developers may provide a better UX by only showing the federated login accounts from the domain that they accept.

  • Federated Credential Management API
  • Web
  • JavaScript
  • Privacy Sandbox

Eiji Kitamura

February 29, 2024

We're responding because we believe that it's important to listen to what IAB Tech Lab is presenting and that the ecosystem has the most up to date, accurate information.

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Alex Cone

February 15, 2024

Register for the upcoming Private State Tokens Office Hours. Coming on the 27th February in Portuguese and 6th March in English.

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February 4, 2024