Ads based on your browsing history are nothing new. On the contrary, it’s a widespread and controversial phenomenon, but now Google is rolling out new tools to give you more control over ad serving in ...

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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.