Google ending support for third-party cookies

Google has announced that they will be ending their support for third-party cookies at some point in time. However, their first proposal for doing this (called FLoC), has now been replaced by a new proposal for a system called Topics. What does Topics do differently than third-party cookies, and would you expect different browsers (Chrome, Firefox, Safari, iOS, Android, etc.) to support it? As we have discussed in class, the use of third-party cookies is still very pervasive, but it is assumed within the advertising industry that they will be put aside at some point. Given this, what other options and techniques are being discussed to replace them, and which one do you think will be successful? Do you expect these new approaches to significantly improve privacy protections? How does this all relate to the CCPA, CCPR and the GDPR? Here are some relevant links for this prompt: https://blog.google/products/ads-commerce/a-more-privacy-first-web/ https://support.google.com/google-ads/answer/11899856?hl=en https://www.theverge.com/2021/6/24/22547339/google-chrome-cookiepocalypse-delayed-2023 https://www.adweek.com/sponsored/balancing-your-tactics-for-post-cookie-marketing-relevance/ https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/03/googles-floc-terrible-idea https://www.zdnet.com/article/google-reveals-topics-cookie-replacement-acknowledges-floc-was-problematic/