Google’s Ambitious Privacy Sandbox Project Signals Its End

Google just quietly killed something you may never have used or heard of: Privacy Sandbox. You should grieve this death anyway, because the implications are grim.

This basically means six years’ worth of work toward ending third-party cookies in Chrome—which might have ultimately made cookies obsolete across all major browsers—has amounted to nothing.

Reading between the lines of Google’s bureaucratic language aimed at not alienating advertisers, Privacy Sandbox seems to have been a…