LONDON — Google is dropping plans to eliminate cookies from its Chrome web browser, making a sudden U-turn on four years of work to phase out a technology that helps businesses tracks users online.

Google has announced it will no longer be rolling out its ‘user-choice’ button, meaning third-party cookies in Chrome are here to stay. The user-choice button would've allowed users to opt out of ...

Google has reversed a decision on its more than five-year plan to phase out third-party cookies. The company announced Tuesday that it will keep third-party cookies ...

Google now says Chrome won’t join Safari and Firefox in blocking the web trackers by default, and instead, it will have users choose. Google now says Chrome won’t join Safari and Firefox in blocking ...