Local Storage - The New Way of Tracking What You Do Online
Google recently announced that third-party cookies (cookies which are used to track you by other websites or companies than the website you visit) will disappear in Chrome by 2022. Unfortunately, this does not mean the end of our tracking online, but the rise of alternative tracking methods, such as local storage.
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