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Google will shorten their cookie length to two years. Is that short? The old expiration date for cookies was 2038.

Will this be enough for the privacy advocates?
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from Teddie 1772 Days ago #
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No. This is just a token jesture to confuse privacy advocates. If you read the small print the cookies reset the expiry date every time you visit Google, so theoretically they could make the length around 30 or 60 days without any serious reduction to their data. I reckon they choose 2 years to make it sound like this is connected to the main privacy issue of how long they save search and visitor data for.

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