Opting Your Website Out of Google's FLoC Network

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Post by oedmarap » Fri, Apr 16, 2021, 3:09 AM UTC

Opting Your Website Out of Google's FLoC Network
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Post by encryptluks2 » Fri, Apr 16, 2021, 3:49 AM UTC

How does it benefit website owners to opt out?

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Post by cratermoon » Fri, Apr 16, 2021, 3:53 AM UTC

encryptluks2 wrote: post #2

How does it benefit website owners to opt out?

Let me turn the question around: to what extent are website owners who do not opt out accomplices with Google in the privacy violations implicit in their creepy surveillance profiling tech?

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Post by dcow » Fri, Apr 16, 2021, 3:54 AM UTC

encryptluks2 wrote: post #2

How does it benefit website owners to opt out?

Presumably things that promote a healthy internet also benefit website owners since their sites exist on the internet.

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Post by zenincognito » Fri, Apr 16, 2021, 4:02 AM UTC

Only a little bit of time before the opting out process is made redundant by some API that will break somewhere or something that will be brought in as an RFC in chrome.

Chrome's & Android's entire existence is to ensure Google ads business survives. This until Google can find another business that produces the same returns or dies.

I wish there were more entities that would focus on developing tools for open web. Open web as we used to know is dying.

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Post by supernovae » Fri, Apr 16, 2021, 4:03 AM UTC

encryptluks2 wrote: post #2

How does it benefit website owners to opt out?

It's tech that only benefits Google.

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Post by edent » Fri, Apr 16, 2021, 4:10 AM UTC

Why isn't this opt-in?

I'm sick of having to add yet another config option every time some Web giant decides it is OK to abuse my website and my visitors.

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Post by jedwhite » Fri, Apr 16, 2021, 4:13 AM UTC

Add a simple header to block FLoC on your website (fortunately):

`permissions-policy: interest-cohort=()`

It's only deployed on a test set of Chrome browsers so far, and it does create a warning message on browsers that don't support it. [1]

[1] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/66997942/error-with-perm...

Edit to note support for blocking this!

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Post by ulfw » Fri, Apr 16, 2021, 4:23 AM UTC

edent wrote: post #7

Why isn't this opt-in? I'm sick of having to add yet another config option every time some Web giant decides it is OK to abuse my website and my visitors.

It's always the same web giant.

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Post by imwillofficial » Fri, Apr 16, 2021, 4:34 AM UTC

Anyone have any idea how one might do this in a Ghost Blog? Outside of putting cloud flare in front?