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Exciting Web Privacy News The Web is undergoing a significant advance in privacy at the moment. In recent weeks, the Chrome browser enabled cross-site storage partitioning. That is: many features in Chrome that used to leak data between websites, no longer leak. In Chrome 117, our "State Partitioning test" results (see the table) indicate that 11 browser features no longer leak across sites! Because several popular browsers are based on Chromium, including Edge, Opera, and Vivaldi, I expect this protection will shortly be enabled in those browsers as well. And because other browsers (including Brave, Firefox, Safari and Tor) have previously fixed these leaks, these protections will soon be universal for all Web users. (Current results for a range of browsers are at PrivacyTests.org) What features are left that still need to be partitioned? In Chrome, it's the Blob API, the HSTS cache, and most important of all, third-party cookies. Chrome should fix these leaks as quickly as possible. Congratulations to the Chrome team for making this major step forward! Here's hoping that browser teams will continue to make major progress in fixing other privacy flaws, including by expanding protections against fingerprinting, query parameter tracking, and IP address logging. We'll be watching. ✅❌