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The EFF launched its site Am I FLoCed? [1] on April 9 for Chrome browser users to check whether they've been recruited/co-opted into Google's FLoC testing progr
by samizdis 5y ago
The EFF launched its site Am I FLoCed? [1] on April 9 for Chrome browser users to check whether they've been recruited/co-opted into Google's FLoC testing programme, started in March.
Not sure how it works, but the EFF doesn't seem totally confident that it can detect those affected: "This page will try to detect whether you've been made a guinea pig in Google's ad-tech experiment."
[1] https://amifloced.org/ https://amifloced.org/
- NilsIRL 5y agoFLoC has a well defined API like (all) standards: https://wicg.github.io/floc/ https://wicg.github.io/floc/ There's no reason why the website would not be reliable at detecting whether FLoC is enabled on your browser. You can also used https://floc.glitch.me/ https://floc.glitch.me/ which was linked in one of the blog posts from google.
- stefan_ 5y agoIn the sense that you can call "side channel for ill-specified data Google wants to leak" an "API".