<strike>Brave</strike> Everyone is Blocking Google FLoC tracking

Started by rcjordan, April 13, 2021, 04:21:46 PM

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April 13, 2021, 04:21:46 PM Last Edit: April 19, 2021, 02:07:32 AM by rcjordan
"FLoC materially harms user privacy under the guise of being privacy-friendly," Brave's Peter Snyder and Brendan Eich explain. "FLoC tells sites about your browsing history, [it] makes it easier for sites to track you across the web, [and it] promotes a false notion of what privacy is, and why privacy is important."

https://www.thurrott.com/cloud/web-browsers/249046/brave-is-blocking-google-floc

rcjordan

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April 13, 2021, 09:11:02 PM

rcjordan

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April 13, 2021, 09:28:06 PM
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DuckDuckGo can now block the Google Chrome tracking method, FLoC

https://techxplore.com/news/2021-04-duckduckgo-block-google-chrome-tracking.html

Brad

#3
April 13, 2021, 09:54:33 PM
Also:

No, Google! Vivaldi users will not get FLoC'ed.

https://vivaldi.com/blog/no-google-vivaldi-users-will-not-get-floced/

rcjordan

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April 13, 2021, 10:15:40 PM
I installed the DDG extension on Chrome before G nukes it.

ergophobe

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April 13, 2021, 11:19:34 PM

rcjordan

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April 19, 2021, 02:05:35 AM Last Edit: April 19, 2021, 02:11:00 AM by rcjordan

rcjordan

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June 12, 2021, 05:24:21 PM
Mozilla analysis of G Floc (pdf)

https://mozilla.github.io/ppa-docs/floc_report.pdf


Why You Suddenly Need To Stop Using Google Chrome
https://www.forbes.com/sites/zakdoffman/2021/06/12/new-apple-iphone-ipad-mac-update-confirms-serious-google-chrome-warning/

>I installed the DDG extension on Chrome before G nukes it.

This extension has recently started blocking (and marking as blocked) Facebook 3rd party tracking on various news sites.  Usually, these are FB news widgets.

ergophobe

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June 13, 2021, 05:27:58 PM
Quote"Chrome is the only major browser that doesn't offer meaningful protection from tracking," rival Mozilla told me this week

Chrome's "creepy" tracking is something Google is adding to Chromium, right? So, by default, a Chromium browser has neither the creepy tracking nor any sort of tracking blocking like FF, but it would depend on what decision whoever is working on the final release makes, right?

rcjordan

#9
June 13, 2021, 05:50:54 PM
I'm losing track of all the tracking injections, but Debbie says that G is building an Apple-like walled garden of new, assorted tracking methods that -when assembled in their boiler room- replaces cookies in the literal sense.

This will be a Google-wide initiative and not just Chrome.  For instance, Ublock just flagged/blocked a raft of new scripts and google-owned domains being added to G News --mostly affecting the "local" section.

Brad

#10
June 13, 2021, 06:23:22 PM
> Chromium

I don't know if Google's tracking is being built into the open source Chromium rendering engine or only into Chrome and other Google branded software.

I have seen assurances by other browser producers that use Chromium as their rendering engine, that they are on the lookout for Google spyware code and will remove it.

rcjordan

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June 17, 2021, 08:41:18 PM
Amazon is blocking Google's FLoC — and that could seriously weaken the system

https://digiday.com/media/amazon-is-blocking-googles-floc-and-that-could-seriously-weaken-the-fledgling-tracking-system/

Brad

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June 18, 2021, 10:56:53 AM
I think the days of Google dictating some new standard and everybody just obeying is nearly over.

grnidone

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June 18, 2021, 08:33:51 PM
>I think the days of Google dictating some new standard and everybody just obeying is nearly over.

Thankfully.

rcjordan

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June 24, 2021, 02:47:38 PM
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