Google claims that its Privacy Sandbox APIs have enhanced privacy and “works for publishers and advertisers,” but after four years is now abandoning its plan to rid Chrome’s reliance on third-party cookies. Google has been talking up a post-cookie future (in the browser sense, not the diet sense) for years now. But it seems like the company isn’t as confident as it used to be in its ability to completely re-shape the internet or it might be balking under regulator scrutiny. In any case, Google’s Privacy Sandbox is now going to be an optional feature alongside old-fashioned cookies instead of a total replacement. Can google completely remove cookies from Chrome ?

