LONDON, June 13 (Reuters) - Britain's antitrust
regulator said commitments it secured from Google in
2022 related to online advertising were no longer needed after
the tech company decided against a standalone prompt for
third-party cookies in April.
The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) had been
concerned that Google's original plan to downgrade third-party
cookies could have weakened competition in digital advertising.
In 2022 it accepted commitments from Google that addressed
its concerns about its "privacy sandbox" proposals, specifically
around plans to remove some third-party cookies from its Chrome
browser.
"The CMA believes the commitments are no longer necessary
and is now consulting before it takes a decision on whether to
release them later this year," it said on Friday.