Regardless of the method, cookies are the vehicles that deliver data. As a result, privacy regulations focus on what type of data is collected. While cookies may be necessary, they are not the only tool that will help you keep track of visitors to your website. For example, using server side tracking can help you determine which cookies your customers have opened and which are about to expire. It all comes down to the purpose of the data collected at the other end. An identity matching system is required to link behavior events across devices and sessions. Servers collect information by stringing together information using session IDs. This is not good for understanding behaviors that occur over long periods of time or cross-browser. Third-party cookies are about to expire. With third-party cookies on the decline, how can marketers make sure they don't lose any of their online data? By 2023, Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, and Apple Safari will no longer accept thir...