Front End Sheffield: February 2024

We're in Room 12.4.12 at the Charles Street Building, Sheffield Hallam University, 120 Charles St, Sheffield, S1 2NE, England

You'll need to sign-in at the security desk, but look for FES signs up into the lift and the 4th floor.

This month: Rowan Merewood

Our event is free and inclusive; we welcome people of all backgrounds and experience levels to join. We will be checking in people at the door so be sure to sign up online.

Before you attend, please read our code of conduct: http://bit.ly/fes-coc

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This month we'll be welcoming:

Rowan Merewood - Preparing for the end of third-party cookies

Third-party cookies enable critical web functionality across shared sign-in, fraud protection, generally just cool embedded experiences, and (of course) advertising. They get a bad rep as they also enable cross-site tracking. Browsers have been making progress towards restricting them, but as with any breaking change to the web, it's a long process with a surprising amount of hidden complexity. Chrome has just begun enabling its new Tracking Protection feature which restricts third-party cookies by default for 1% of users. This means your sites might be breaking! We'll run through what third-party cookies really even are, how you can check if you need them, and what shiny privacy-preserving alternatives you can implement instead.

Rowan works in Developer Relations for Privacy Sandbox at Google.

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Post-meetup social
After the talks we'll head to socialise at the nearby Triple Point Brewery + Bar. They serve a range of alcoholic and non-alcoholic drinks, plus food from Twisted Burger Co. See https://triplepointbrewing.co.uk/ for more details.

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Running order
6:15pm - Doors open (please sign in at reception)
6:30pm - Welcome
6:40pm - Talk 1
7:10pm - Break
7:20pm - Talk 2
7:40pm – Open mic
7:45pm – Social