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Amazon is blocking Google’s FLoC

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Re: Amazon is blocking Google’s FLoC

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hahahasure wrote: post #65
gentleman11 wrote: post #9

If Firefox had larger market share, Chrome wouldn’t have been able to make this opt out for websites rather than opt in because it would have given them a bad public image. I don’t think it’s fair that some company gets to force every website maintainer (most aren’t extremely technical and just use Wordpress or something similar) on earth to muddle through documentation for their particular setups to 1) learn it exis…

Firefox just sucks. For some computers it works, but me and others have all sorts of breaking issues. I tried Firefox, it just sucks. Edit- shoot the messenger, it won't fix Firefox bugs or help their market share.

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Re: Amazon is blocking Google’s FLoC

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Post by bserge »

TheRealDunkirk wrote: post #42
c0nfused wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Blocking FLoC is as easy as adding this header to the HTTP response: Permissions-Policy: interest-cohort=() Source: https://www.drupal.org/project/drupal/issues/3209628

So, wait. We add this into the headers, and just expect Chrome to respect it?

Hey, it worked with robots.txt all this time :D

Re: Amazon is blocking Google’s FLoC

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Post by driverdan »

WORMS_EAT_WORMS wrote: post #39

Trying to block this is a losing battle. The whole privacy-first angle is so disingenuous, too. Is there a way we can just obfuscate / ruin our data with them? Like a tool or browser extension I can run that clicks / visits a bunch of random links and totally trashes which "cohort" Google thinks I belong in. I'd pay for this more than paying to opt-out. Then serve me all the ads you want.

Stop using Chrome.

Re: Amazon is blocking Google’s FLoC

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Post by yesbabyyes »

Mizza wrote: post #48
c0nfused wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Blocking FLoC is as easy as adding this header to the HTTP response: Permissions-Policy: interest-cohort=() Source: https://www.drupal.org/project/drupal/issues/3209628

What else goes in this field? Can we all collude to flood Google's spybox with garbage data?

It's specified here: https://www.w3.org/TR/permissions-policy-1/#policy-controlle...

There is a non-exhaustive list of features/APIs here: https://github.com/w3c/webappsec-feature-policy/blob/master/...

Each feature takes an allowlist, specifying which, if any, origins can use the feature.

Re: Amazon is blocking Google’s FLoC

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dreamcompiler wrote: post #80
gentleman11 wrote: post #9

If Firefox had larger market share, Chrome wouldn’t have been able to make this opt out for websites rather than opt in because it would have given them a bad public image. I don’t think it’s fair that some company gets to force every website maintainer (most aren’t extremely technical and just use Wordpress or something similar) on earth to muddle through documentation for their particular setups to 1) learn it exis…

I would love to use Firefox, but for some years now Firefox on the Mac (when I have a few dozen tabs open) causes multi-tens-of-seconds pauses whenever I do anything with the mouse like click or scroll. Some of these throw up a rainbow cursor; some just silently do nothing. And yes, I'm using the latest version of everything, including hardware. While Mozilla obsesses about eye candy, they lose market share because t…

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Re: Amazon is blocking Google’s FLoC

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Post by lisper »

Wow, the bias in this article is unbelievably blatant:

"[Amazon is] preventing Google’s tracking system FLoC — or Federated Learning of Cohorts — from gathering valuable data reflecting the products people research in Amazon’s vast e-commerce universe"

Compare with, e.g.:

"Amazon is taking steps to protect its user's privacy by blocking Google's heavy-handed overreach in leveraging its Chrome browser to spy on user's personal shopping habits and sell that information to other retailers".

(Note: I'm not saying my rewrite is unbiased. It's not. It's just biased in a different direction to highlight the contrast.)

Re: Amazon is blocking Google’s FLoC

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Post by dannyw »

seanhunter wrote: post #83

Someone should make a browser plugin that puts you into a seperate random cohort with every click. It could be called "Floc off"

Careful, google bans Web extensions that interferes with ads (AdNaseum). Only problem is ad blockers got too popular before they made Chrome.

Re: Amazon is blocking Google’s FLoC

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Post by fastball »

lisper wrote: post #88

Wow, the bias in this article is unbelievably blatant: "[Amazon is] preventing Google’s tracking system FLoC — or Federated Learning of Cohorts — from gathering valuable data reflecting the products people research in Amazon’s vast e-commerce universe" Compare with, e.g.: "Amazon is taking steps to protect its user's privacy by blocking Google's heavy-handed overreach in leveraging its Chrome browser to spy on user's…

Yeahhhh, but Amazon makes a ton off their own ad business and is trying to turn everyone's personal devices into a mesh network they own. They don't give af about user privacy.
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