With Google’s announcement on alternative identifiers, first-party data remains king

March 9, 2021 Content Type Blog Post, Epsilon, Topic Customer Insights, Topic Identity, Topic Personalization, Topic Privacy Leave a comment 3 Views

Last week, Google published a blog post detailing their position on leveraging alternative user-level identifiers once third-party cookies are deprecated, noting their consumer privacy concerns and how such an identifier would be used in their proprietary advertising technology platforms. The biggest takeaway from the announcement is that Google does not intend to directly use alternative user-level identifiers that track individuals across sites within the company’s product portfolio.

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We’re all invited to the sandbox if we play by Google’s rules

On March 3, Google published its position on user-level identifiers, and some likened it to dropping a bomb on the ad-tech community. Google shared that it does not intend to directly use alternative authenticated user-level identifiers after deprecating third-party cookies. And it considers such identifiers non-viable from a privacy perspective.