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Kinda sucks for google that within 2 months of them beginning their trial it’s already got a million holes in it. Do you think they keep going bec they don’t a
by vxNsr 6y ago
Kinda sucks for google that within 2 months of them beginning their trial it’s already got a million holes in it.
Do you think they keep going bec they don’t actually care about the privacy implications or do you think they try to “legislate” their way out of it by adding something to the EULA of the FLoC program that you can’t share IDs. So they can say “see we don’t allow it” and can pretend no one is gonna do it behind their back.
- SpicyLemonZest 6y agoThat’s how you find holes, by running trials. Remember that this isn’t a privacy regression; they’re trying to find an ad-friendly replacement for third party cookies, which can do cross-site tracking without any need for holes.
- vxNsr 6y agoIt’s a regression bec they’re taking control away from the users, you can decide to not allow 3rd party cookies, but you can’t opt out of FLoC very easily.
- SpicyLemonZest 6y agoIt's my understanding (source: https://blog.malwarebytes.com/cybercrime/privacy/2021/04/millions-of-chrome-users-quietly-added-to-googles-floc-pilot/ https://blog.malwarebytes.com/cybercrime/privacy/2021/04/mil...) that users who opt out of third-party cookies are also opted out of the FLoC trial. I do agree that more granular controls would have been ideal.
- xg15 6y agoI thought FLoC was supposed to become yet another DOM API that any Javascript of any web page you visit can access (if Google got their way). Where would there even be an EULA to sign?
- foobiter 6y agoall the data gathered by floc is algorithmically categorized and anonymized by google, they also determine what qualifies as a “protected” content