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> If you're not going to prevent fingerprinting, why even get rid of third-party cookies? FLoC greatly increases the potential abuses that can come from finger
by danShumway 5y ago
> If you're not going to prevent fingerprinting, why even get rid of third-party cookies?
FLoC greatly increases the potential abuses that can come from fingerprinting, particularly from smaller sites.
So is Google committed to completely eliminating fingerprinting from the browser before it launches FLoC? Because it would really stink for everyone if the privacy sandbox doesn't completely block fingerprinting, and then the sites that manage to fingerprint users suddenly have a huge amount of extra data about them.
What will happen if the privacy sandbox comes out and people are still fingerprinting through other invasive means, or if a hard-to-fix exploit is found, or if a research paper demonstrates that the privacy sandbox is insufficient? Will Google commit to disabling FLoC if that happens?