Google’s browser cookies plan anti-competitive, advertisers tell EU

BRUSSELS, Sept 28 (Reuters) – Google’s (GOOGL.O) plan to block a popular web tracking tool called “cookies” is anti-competitive, a group of advertisers, publishers and tech companies said in a complaint to EU antitrust regulators.

The grievance could boost the European Commission’s investigation opened in June into Alphabet unit Google’s Privacy Sandbox which the company said could allow businesses to target clusters of consumers without identifying individuals.

Google said a year ago that it…