Re: Request to delay 3P Cookies Phase Out

I second Pedro's proposal. We are also a small company providing video
management solutions (both live and VOD) to enterprises and government.
With COVID19, our company's focus has been shifted to helping other
companies do large webcast/webinars as employees are working from home. The
way this 3p cookies impact us is that lot of our customers embed our
application's videos into other platform like Sharepoint, Wordpress,
ServiceNow etc. We are not advertisers or do not use advertisements and we
are an enterprise software company. We were in the midst of evaluating this
change on how it impacts us and then COVID19 happened.

Thanks
Shailesh Lohiya
VP, Software Engineering
Vbrick
https://www.vbrick.com

On Fri, Mar 20, 2020 at 8:09 AM Pedro Alvarado <Pedro.Alvarado@resonate.com>
wrote:

> Hello Everyone,
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> Short of a better channel and hoping that this message reaches the right
> decision-makers, in light of COVID-19, allow me to request that we push the
> timeline to phase out support for third-party cookies in Chrome by six
> months to a year.
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> I work for a company that helps businesses understand why groups of people
> behave the way they do.
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> Since February, we have been working to understand the privacy-sandbox
> proposals and to understand how we can adapt our software. As a result of
> the COVID-19 world we now live in, like many others, we have aggressively
> shifted our gears to help businesses understand how groups of people are
> responding to the tremendous amount of change COVID-19 brings to our lives.
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> For example, we are helping businesses understand how likely people are to
> cancel a subscription service, make a significant purchase (e.g., house),
> book a hotel, or having to declare bankruptcy within 90 days and on a
> continuous basis.
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> Today, we think COVID-19 will significantly impact our research and
> development efforts for six months to a year.
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> There are three reasons for this impact. First, our top priority is to
> keep our employees and communities safe. As a result, like others, we are
> adapting to a prolonged shelter-in-place environment and challenges
> thereof. Next, we are allocating as many resources as possible to ensure
> the health of our business network: customers and partners. Lastly, we
> observe a high degree of uncertainty surrounding our customers and our own
> business; hence, we need to be conservative in our actions.
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> By pushing the timeline to phase out support for third-party cookies in
> Chrome, you can help small to medium sized businesses like ours, and our
> customers succeed during these difficult times.
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> Sincerely,
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> Pedro Alvarado
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> VP Engineering
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> resonate.com
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