Understanding CHIPS: Enhancing Privacy with Independent Cookie Storage
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Summary
Cookies Having Independent Partitioned State (CHIPS) allows developers to create separate cookie jars per top-level site, enhancing privacy by preventing cross-site tracking through cookies.
Key quotes
· 3 pulledHistorically when a site embeds content via an <iframe>, the embedded content has been able to set a cookie on the user's device in response to the cross-site request.
This enables the content owner to track user activity across sites that embed the same content.
Cookies Having Independent Partitioned State (CHIPS) allows developers to opt a cookie into partitioned storage, with a separate cookie jar per top-level site.
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