Google’s backtrack on its promise to kill tracking cookies last year created a huge furor. But all seems to have gone rather quiet since then. In the background, there are all kinds of standoffs as no one can agree on what should happen next. Meanwhile, Google has suddenly brought back digital fingerprinting for some added spice.

Google has announced a new policy for the Chrome browser, under which the synchronization feature will be disabled if the browser has not been updated for several years, the news website about Google and Android,