German publishers, advertisers seek EU intervention on Google’s cookie phaseout

German publishers and advertisers are calling for lawmakers to intervene on Google’s plan to phase out third-party cookies by next year, the Financial Times reports. “Publishers must remain in a position where they are allowed to ask their users for consent to process data, without Google capturing this decision,” the group, including Politico Publisher Axel Springer and Germany’s federal association of digital publishers, said in a 108-page complaint to the European Commissioner for Competition Margrethe Vestager. Editor’s note: IAPP Staff Writer Joe Duball reported on Google’s post-third-party cookie plans.