Google halts its 4-year plan to turn off tracking cookies by default in Chrome

Long story short --- Google will always invade your privacy. It's what they do --- they are a one trick pony.

For now, they have called off plans to also monopolize the ability to collect your data from Chrome.

Chrome users and their data are little more than cattle being farmed on Google's ranch.

No doubt Google has some awful incentives when it comes to user tracking and making money from ads. But tracking has real benefits for spam and fraud detection. So any attempt at reducing tracking can be siderailed into "personal privacy vs. public safety" discussion.