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My understanding of FLOC is that it would meet that standard. That it would independently identify you to Site A and Site B as a person in a particular cohort.

• dleslie 6y ago
  That's enough information to begin to uniquely identify me, along with other commonly available factors; like GeoIP and so forth.
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  • ChrisLomont 6y ago
    Answering any packet request from your end is enough to uniquely identify you. How do you propose TCP/IP would work without unique addresses?
    • dleslie 6y ago
      From my original comment: > This is precisely the role that privacy-protecting legislation should be undertaking.
      • NavinF 6y ago
        Legislation will not solve the technical problem that the guy you're replying to brought up. Are they gonna write distributed communication protocols into law now?
        • dleslie 6y ago
          They can write private data sharing restriction legislation.
    • smolder 6y ago
      In many cases yes, but broadly, IP address is not a basis for determining an individual. It's difficult to know it's not some other NAT'd user or dynamically assigned.
      • ehsankia 6y ago
        And why is the same not true for FLoC? How come when it comes to FLoC, the bare minimum amount of information is magically enough to identify you, but when it comes to IP, you just shrug it away as it being too difficult?
        • smolder 6y ago
          Personally, I didn't make any claim about FLoC magically identifying people. It does help to identify people, though. IP address you can't do without, FLoC would be additional information beyond that, so it helps identify people.
• dillondoyle 6y ago
  in addition i haven't heard that google is dramatically changing GA tracking?