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 scrapped its plans to protect Chrome users from third-party cookies, four and a half years after it first promised to implement the privacy feature. The web browser remains the most popular ...

Chrome has finally announced plans to kill third-party cookies. It’s been almost four years since third-party cookies have been disabled in Firefox and Safari, but Google, one of the world’s largest ...