🍪 Google is preparing to push back its deadline for killing off tracking cookies until at least 2024

Plus: Twitter 'rudderless' as Musk saga hurts advertising business, TikTok to provide researchers with more transparency as damaging reports mount, and more…

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Google is preparing to push back its deadline for killing off tracking cookies until at least 2024. Google is further delaying its plan to kill off third-party tracking cookies in its Chrome browser. The cookie phase out is now not expected to start until 2024. The timeline extension is designed to give the industry more time to test cookieless… (Lara O'Reilly / Business Insider)

Lara O'Reilly @larakiara

Scoop from @threefirstnames and I: Google's plan to kill third-party cookies in Chrome is delayed - again - until 2024

businessinsider.comGoogle is pushing back its deadline for killing off tracking cookies until at least 2024The second delay in its timeline to phasing out third-party cookies in Chrome is designed to allow more time to test alternative technologies.

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Twitter 'rudderless' as Musk saga hurts advertising business. Legal battle to enforce $44bn sale has exacerbated tensions between leadership and staff Twitter is suffering from falling morale, staff departures and an uphill battle to keep its $4.5bn-a-year advertising business afloat, as its leadership… (Hannah Murphy / Financial Times)

Financial Times @FinancialTimes

Twitter is suffering from falling morale, staff departures and a battle to keep its $4.5bn-a-year advertising business afloat as its leadership grapples with Elon Musk's on-off pursuit of the company

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TikTok to provide researchers with more transparency as damaging reports mount. TikTok is making it easier for researchers to delve into the data and protocols that make up the platform. In a blog post, TikTok COO Vanessa Pappas announced the company will soon grant researchers access to the framework behind the platform and… (Emma Roth / The Verge)

Nora Benavidez @AttorneyNora

In April, @changeterms launched #FixTheFeed to urge major social media companies to do better on their algorithms, transparency, and integrity efforts. Here’s the newest of our wins, as @tiktok_us rolls out more transparency measures that we asked for. YES!

theverge.comTikTok to provide researchers with more transparency as damaging reports mountTikTok is giving researchers tools to access its inner workings.

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Meta reports first revenue decline and 36 percent profit drop. It was the first time the social media giant’s revenue had fallen since it went public a decade ago, as it confronts increased regulatory scrutiny and a turbulent economy. (Mike Isaac via The New York Times)

rat king @MikeIsaac

Meta (Facebook) sees first ever quarterly revenue decline as a public company and its outlook for next quarter is not looking hot. revenue sinking fast Also CFO Dave Wehner moving to new role as "Chief Strategy Officer"

nytimes.comMeta reports first revenue decline and a 36 percent profit drop.It was the first time the social media giant’s revenue had fallen since it went public a decade ago, as it confronts increased regulatory scrutiny and a turbulent economy.

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The Default Tech Settings You Should Turn Off Right Away. So with every tech product we use, it's important to take time to peruse the many menus, buttons and switches to pare down the data we share. Here's a streamlined guide to many of the default settings that I and other tech writers always change. (Brian X. Chen / The New York Times)

The New York Times @nytimes

There’s a saying about our personal technology: The devil is in the defaults — referring to the settings that tech companies embed in the devices, apps and websites that make us share our data about our activities and location.

nyti.msThe Default Tech Settings You Should Turn Off Right AwayThese controls, which are buried inside products from Apple, Google, Meta and others, make us share more data than we need to.

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