TechScape: Google is changing how it tracks us online – but who benefits?

In this week's newsletter: a radical rethink of how the company uses cookies seems at first to be a win for privacy advocates. Here's what you need to know

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Cookies are one of the many questionable pacts we have made online, where privacy is exchanged for convenience without being entirely sure about the consequences. As with so many arrangements involving our data, this deal is being rewritten under the gaze of regulators.

Last week Google issued an update on how it is replacing cookies on its Chrome browser, which is important because two-thirds of web browsing around the world is on Chrome.