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Can't privacy concious browser defeat FLoC simply by sending random cohort IDs on each request?

• izacus 5y ago
  That would require admitting that moving the tracking process to client-side actually improves on status quo (by not collecting data on the server). While the whole framing of EFF et. al. is put in a way that does not allow for even a small doubt that the proposal is just the worst thing ever with no redeeming qualities. That framing disallows working within this feature to modify browsers to send the required headers.
  • Flocular 5y ago
    not at all if you're not taking part in the data collection at all and are just sending noise on the channel. I guess chrome could counter DRM-signing the cohort-id or something
• speedgoose 5y ago
  I would believe that random noise is easy to filter when you are Google.
  • NotEvil 5y ago
    Depends upon the noise, But even if they filter it out it will get the desired result of not having a cohart id. In case of opting out you are in the default don't like privacy invasive cohart