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Nah, this isn't enough.
Redirect chrome User-Agents to stop-using-google-chrome.com
Will you lose users? Yeah. But don't worry, you'll lose them anyways when Google decides to unperson your website like they did with Parler.
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It seems not. The FLoC page ( https://web.dev/floc/ ) says: > For pages that haven't been excluded, a page visit will be included in the browser's FLoC calculation if document.interestCohort() is used on the page. During the current FLoC origin trial, a page will also be included in the calculation if Chrome detects that the page load ads or ads-related resources.
Dirty of google to hide behind “web.dev” and not make it front and center clear this is a google property.
I am not defending Google behavior, I have no dog in this fight, just sharing. In fact, there was a weird behavior I detected inadvertently last year 2 employers ago where I couldn't load any .dev public internet sites due to preloaded rules that hadn't been updated since before the .dev gTLD was publicly available. Some would load, and others (web.dev in particular) wouldn't load. Anyways yeah this sucks, it seems that any new advancements in web related technologies that could enable new privacy measures are just side stepped by the dark wizards out of Mountain View...
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Excluding a page is a manual process however, requiring to set the header mentioned in the blog post. So website owners have to explicitly opt-out of FLoC.
Yeah, but that is only necessary if the page contains ads or ads-related resources, right? That’s how I interpret the previous quote.
And when that does happen, Google is famously transparent in its actions and easy to contact to resolve such issues.
(You may detect a little touch of sarcasm above!)
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. Op…
I think the state of affairs with the mobile world is the worst. I can't help but think that Android was the worst disaster that happened to software industry. Android corrupted the ethos of FOSS, decimated all hopes for privacy, contributed to destroying the environment, stripped users of freedom of choice. I think it'll take a very special group of people to reverse the tide.
If android didn't exist then iOS might be the only major mobile OS, so in that sense at least it seems to be good that Android exists. It would be much better if it wasn't widely used as a carrier for Google's ecosystem and spyware, of course.
And I don't mean opting out. Asking them nicely and hoping they respect that is not good enough.
It made me realize that there is indeed (of course) software engineers (meaning: people) working on this who actually write that code. Does a high salary justify working on such features, or are modern day software engineers more like factory workers? I think not because most software engineers have a choice.
Been thinking about this a lot afterwards.
Waiting for google to make this a ranking factor for SEO like they did with amp.
Do you know if the algorithm favours sites with GA as a positive SEO ranking factor? or am I going into tin hat territory here?
SEO is 100% pure speculation, as there is no way to validate why Google ranks things the way they do. The only people who do know for sure are closely monitored Google employees who value their bonuses.
Let me get this straight: even if my site has no ads or trackers, Chrome will now use my visitors data for advertising and surveillance??? Does anyone else see FLoC as worse than the current state we're in?
The current state with third-party cookie tracking is terrible. This is terrible in a different way. It gives Google even more control over the ad-tech industry. Rather than a diversity of ad-tech kings using third-party cookies to track people and invade privacy, this becomes the "One Ring to Rule Them All" that makes Google even more dominant in ad-tech, while allowing them to pretend that they care about privacy a…
Today I looked at the source code of Chrome where this is implemented, so I'd understand it better. It made me realize that there is indeed (of course) software engineers (meaning: people) working on this who actually write that code. Does a high salary justify working on such features, or are modern day software engineers more like factory workers? I think not because most software engineers have a choice. Been thin…
Time to look outside of tech bubble perhaps?