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Well that's a great argument that it isn't perfect, but the real question is whether it's an improvement. Is it better than the state of the art, which is every
by ridaj 5y ago
Well that's a great argument that it isn't perfect, but the real question is whether it's an improvement. Is it better than the state of the art, which is everyone dropping a shit ton of completely untraceable cookies? For example the browser fingerprinting piece that they highlight is already a problem with or without FLoC.
I don't have an opinion about FLoC per se but this piece feels like it's focused on finding flaws with it in the absolute, as if we didn't have pretty awful tracking now. I don't believe we can get to perfect, what with shadow browser fingerprinting techniques and all, I just want to know if it's an improvement.
- ByteWelder 5y agoIf all other fingerprinting techniques would magically disappear, then FLoC is an improvement. If other fingerprinting techniques stay, then it's actually worse, since there is now an extra data point to better identify users.
- doomslice 5y agoThis is the reason they're introducing FLoC in the first place: https://www.chromium.org/Home/chromium-privacy/privacy-sandbox https://www.chromium.org/Home/chromium-privacy/privacy-sandb...