The Chrome browser doesn’t currently have mechanisms designed specifically for tracking protection.
The privacy-sandbox Chromium project promises initiatives related to tracking prevention, and Chrome has publicly stated intention to making third-party cookies obsolete by 2024.
Chrome does not classify classify trackers or domains for the purposes of tracking protection.
Chrome restricts the maximum lifetime of cookies to 400 days. Other than that, Chrome does not restrict the use of third-party cookies.
Chrome restricts the maximum lifetime of cookies to 400 days. Other than that, Chrome does not restrict the use of first-party cookies.
Chrome does not restrict the use of other browser storage in third-party context.
Chrome does not restrict the use of other browser storage in first-party context.
No protections against CNAME cloaking.
Chrome 85 sets the default referrer policy to strict-origin-when-cross-origin
. This means that for cross-origin requests (e.g. sub.domain.com
to othersub.domain.com
, or sub.domain.com
to sub.otherdomain.com
) the referer
HTTP header and document.referrer
JavaScript API are truncated to show just the origin of the website making the request. Thus a page such as https://www.domain.com/some-page?param=value
would show up just as https://www.domain.com
in the referrer records.
On macOS Chrome, the version number in the User Agent string is frozen to 10_15_7
to fix compatibility issues with upgrading to macOS version 11+ (Big Sur). This has obvious privacy implications as well, as the platform version is no longer useful for fingerprinting purposes.
Sample User Agent string when running Chrome 90.0.4430.212 on macOS 11.3.1:
"Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/90.0.4430.212 Safari/537.36"