Chrome got a big update this week and there's one feature Google hasn't been too keen to promote. It's called the "Privacy Sandbox", which is a a new name for what was previously called FLoC, then the Topics API and is is enabled by default. According to Arstechnica, "this feature will track the web pages you visit and generate a list of advertising topics that it will share with web pages whenever they ask". Google calls it a "a significant step on the path towards a fundamentally more private web", as they plan to use this privacy sandbox feature instead of third party tracking cookies other browsers like Safari and Firefox got rid of years ago. Google isn't keen on doing that without an equivalent way to track users lined up, so that's why the dubiously named Privacy Sandbox and API exists in Chrome, but not other browsers, as the other browsers have no business interest in spying on you for advertising purposes.
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