Category: Data & Privacy

July 23, 2020 by Michael Sweeney

During its yearly Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) in June 2020, Apple released a bunch of changes to its devices and operating systems like they always do. But nestled between the shiny UI upgrades and new Memoji stickers were a series of privacy updates to iOS that all but signalled the end of the lifeblood of […]

June 22, 2020 by Michael Sweeney, Paulina Zawiślak

Since the release of version 1.0 in September 2017, Webkit has released 5 new versions of its Intelligent Tracking Prevention (ITP) to strengthen user privacy for Safari users.

May 25, 2020 by Michael Sweeney, Paulina Zawiślak

A lot has happened since the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) came into force on May 25, 2018, and it can be hard keeping up with all the news stories. At Clearcode, we’ve been keeping an internal record of the most important news stories and opinions even before the GDPR was introduced. Now, […]

May 19, 2020 by Maciej Zawadziński

There’s been a lot of press coverage about Google Chrome’s recent announcement that it’ll stop supporting third-party cookies by 2022. This change will bring an end to an era of digital advertising that publishers have known since the mid-2000s.

May 14, 2020 by Maciej Zawadziński

With all the recent news about Google Chrome’s decision to kill off third-party cookies over the next two years, anyone would think it’s the first piece of news the AdTech industry has heard about the end of third-party cookies. But it isn’t.

April 9, 2020 by Michael Sweeney

Since Google Chrome announced it’ll stop supporting third-party cookies, publishers, agencies, AdTech companies, and brands have questioned what it will mean for the future of the online advertising industry.

February 14, 2020 by Michael Sweeney

On Tuesday the 14th of January, 2020, Google made an announcement that most people in the online advertising industry never thought they would hear — Google will kill off third-party cookies by 2022.Then, on Thursday June 24, 2021, Google Chrome announced that it would be extending its planned sunset of third-party cookies by 2 years. […]

February 12, 2020 by Michael Sweeney

Ever since Google Chrome announced that they’ll stop supporting third-party cookies by 2022, folks within the digital advertising industry have questioned what this means for AdTech and what impact it will have.

January 31, 2020 by Michael Sweeney

On Tuesday the 14th of January, 2020, Google announced that it would shutting off support for third-party cookies by 2022.

January 14, 2020 by Michael Sweeney

What impact do privacy laws like the GDPR and privacy settings like Safari’s Intelligent Tracking Prevention (ITP) have on AdTech?