>> Should we special-case the cookie value "OPT_OUT"? It would be unfortunate indeed if removing old cookies meant that users who had opted out of interest-based advertising started being targeted again. Perhaps excluding the special value OPT_OUT (and asking advertisers to standardize on it?) is justifiable.<p><i>Still</i> suggesting the Evil Bit? <a href="https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3514.txt" rel="nofollow">https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3514.txt</a>
Can we change the clickbaity headline? This is a Google employee, but there is no evidence in that repo that supports the claim that "Google has plans".
Discussion thread on the blink-dev list here:<p><a href="https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/forum/#!topic/blink-dev/r0UBdUAyrLk" rel="nofollow">https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/forum/#!topic/blink...</a>
Might cause an issue for WiFi access portals in short term. Not really related, more of a side effect of poor implementations. Some use cookies to route around settings, I’ve had trouble with in past.