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Analysis: Crunch time for cookies leaves online publishers chasing crumbs

One of the biggest changes in the age of digital advertising is happening, and its not clear that already struggling media outlets are ready

Google is set to turn off third-party cookies on its Chrome browsers

Print sales have been in sharp decline for more than a decade but it now looks like the ad-funded online outlets who thrived in that time are facing their own existential moment.

Google is set to turn off a lucrative feature in its Chrome browsers: third-party cookies, the software that tracks readers as they visit different websites, building up a detailed picture of habits which is data gold for advertisers.

Google has been warning publishers ...