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I've not been following this proposal closely I did find https://github.com/WICG/floc https://github.com/WICG/floc >Tracking people via their cohort >A cohor
by Forge36 6y ago
I've not been following this proposal closely I did find
https://github.com/WICG/floc https://github.com/WICG/floc
>Tracking people via their cohort
>A cohort could be used as a user identifier. It may not have enough bits of information to individually identify someone, but in combination with other information (such as an IP address), it might.
Whose purpose is:
>A FLoC cohort is a short name that is shared by a large number (thousands) of people, derived by the browser from its user’s browsing history.
I wonder if it's possible to define a large enough number X that people are OK with the idea. (Cookies are effectively "1" and nothing is "3,010,000,000" ie on the internet)
Could the cohort minimum size be configurable?
Given the IP address can be known today: what's the existing accidental "FLoC proxy" or "How unique are you online?" Or "online finger print" (something I'd not thought of before: my timezone can significantly narrow down who I am)
You can try using yourself on:
https://amiunique.org/fp https://amiunique.org/fp
- nightpool 6y ago"Could the cohort minimum size be configurable?" this is a good idea, but unfortunately it would just lead to MORE ways to track users, since "size of cohort" is now a (probably very, very high entropy, given how many users never configure anything) source of information
- oh_sigh 6y agoThe benefit of FLoC is that you will need to go out of your way to track and de-anonymize your users. Yes, it can probably be done with enough data. But it is literally the simplest operation in the world with 3P cookies, so simple that tracking users across the internet may just happen on accident. That is unlikely to happen with FLoC.