Support for LAist comes from
Audience-funded nonprofit news
Stay Connected
Audience-funded nonprofit news
Listen
Podcasts Take Two
Google may stop using 'cookies' for ad tracking
solid orange rectangular banner
()
Sep 20, 2013
Listen 4:48
Google may stop using 'cookies' for ad tracking
A Martinez talks to USA Today's Senior Technology Reporter, Alistair Barr, about the possibility that Google will stop using cookies and instead, introduce a new web tracking system that could change advertising on the internet.
A woman chooses Google Search web search engine front page on her tablet.
A woman chooses Google Search web search engine front page on her tablet.
(
DAMIEN MEYER/AFP/Getty Images
)

A Martinez talks to USA Today's Senior Technology Reporter, Alistair Barr, about the possibility that Google will stop using cookies and instead, introduce a new web tracking system that could change advertising on the internet.

When you're online - shopping, browsing, playing games - advertisers are watching your every move. They want to know what you're doing so they can target ads directly to you.

Traditionally, they use little bits of code known as third-party cookies, but Google is considering something completely different.

For more we turn to Alistair Barr, he's the senior technology reporter for USA Today.