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Chrome 80 Released with SameSite Cookie Enforcement, 56 Security Fixes

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Marius Nestor
Feb 5, 2020

Chrome 80 has been in development since mid-December 2019, but the final release Is now here and brings some interesting enhancements. The biggest change in Chrome 80 is probably the SameSite Cookie enforcement everyone is talking about. Enabled by default, SameSite Cookie is a new cookie classification system that aims to make your browsing sessions more secure and limit non-secure cross-site tracking by treating cookies that don’t have the SameSite value declared as as SameSite=Lax cookies.
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