What to know about the phaseout of third party cookies in Google Chrome

For years, placing cookies on a visitor’s computer gave companies an easy way to not only customize a visitor’s website experience but also deliver highly targeted ads on third-party websites. 2023 will start to bring big changes to this paradigm. Responding to increased regulation and privacy concerns, Google plans to start phasing out third-party cookie support for Chrome. With Chrome’s 67% of the global browser market, that will dramatically impact advertising.

Not everything will change. Companies will still own their website audiences. Our SharpSpring, HubSpot, Pardot and Marketo users will continue to be able to capture page visits and click-throughs on the individual level. This provides a great way to segment audiences, creating lists for email campaigns and to customize your website with dynamic content.

With the sunset of individual third-party cookies, companies won’t be able to target at the customer level; targeting will be at an aggregated group level. Google has announced the timeline, with API tools being generally rolled out in Q3 2023. As developers adopt these APIs, they intend to begin phasing out third-party cookies in Chrome in the second half of 2024.

SharpSpring retargeting users will continue to be able to segment audiences based on customer profiles (including fields like application and product interest) and online behaviors (clicks and page visits) and to serve ads on specific websites (including nature.com and researchgate.net) extending well into 2024. At that time, third-party cookies will be phased out and an API-based approach to targeting using cohorts will be phased in. As details are announced by Google, we’ll let you know how that impacts ads and how we’ll respond.

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