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floc
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[D] Google FLoC and Topics API suspiciously similar.
"The browser uses machine learning algorithms to develop a cohort based on the sites that an individual visits. The algorithms might be based on the URLs of the visited sites, on the content of those pages, or other factors. The central idea is that these input features to the algorithm, including the web history, are kept local on the browser and are not uploaded elsewhere — the browser only exposes the generated cohort." Source: https://github.com/WICG/floc
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Amazon is blocking Google’s FLoC
It's pretty complicated and my understanding could be wrong and definitely not an expert. All the stupid CIA-style names that keep changing don't help. Turtledove, fledge, sparrow lol.
But from what I think I know that's kind of right technically, but kind of not in terms of actual real privacy.
Yes, the actual browsing data, e.g. for the basic floc cohorts only what amazon product page you visited, is no longer 'sent' to ad networks (that's a pretty big oversimplification of how ad networks track you but for brevity). That data is parsed in your browser to generate a cohort ID for you.
But this cohort ID is exposed to the world document.interestCohort() and is what's used for targeting and tracking.
To me it seems that the cohorts are so small "thousands of people" + IP or UA it's basically the same as a semi-long lasting uuid.
Here's an image from google's site.
https://web-dev.imgix.net/image/80mq7dk16vVEg8BBhsVe42n6zn82...
It also seems like Chrome/google might be still defaulting browser settings to give themselves even more data just like they currently do?
https://github.com/WICG/floc#qualifying-users-for-whom-a-coh...
BUT when you layer on the other proposals (Fledge/Turtledove/Dovekey or whatever) - which I don't understand that much maybe someone else can explain - it seems like it basically collect this page/product level data and makes it available to DSP etc for tracking/ad serving (again if not technically 1:1 basically in consequence given the sizes of these groups).
Like one of the proposals talks about a 'trusted' key/value server which doesn't seem that different from what already happens? The original proposal wanted to move the entire ad bid/target/serve process into the browser.
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Thank you Firefox for opposing Floc. This is uBlock Origins with about 20 YouTube videos!
and how FLoC works here: https://wicg.github.io/floc/
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Advertisers are already combining Google's FLoC IDs with personal data
FLoC as a source of fingerprinting bits has been an issue in W3C discussions of the project.
https://github.com/WICG/floc/issues/69
As a fingerprinting surface FLoC has similar properties to the Battery Status API -- not stable for the same user over long intervals, but can be used to help match pageviews from different domains that were close in time.
https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2016/11/firefox_remov...
FLoC has a well defined API like (all) standards: 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/ which was linked in one of the blog posts from google.
- Intelligent Tracking Prevention is getting even stronger by also hiding the user’s IP address from trackers on IOS 15
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Apple, FedEx and the Cookie Apocalypse
you can target an Economist reader a week later on a different website. If FLoC works, you can still do that.
https://github.com/WICG/floc won't really let advertisers do that, this is what https://github.com/WICG/turtledove is for
(Disclosure: I work on ads at Google, speaking only for myself)
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iOS 14 tracking changes sees big ad spending drop, tumbling prices
The issue is that the replacement that are currently in the works (https://github.com/WICG/floc and https://github.com/WICG/turtledove/blob/main/FLEDGE.md) are extremely complex, will still dramatically impact adtech performance and only improve privacy for a very contrived definition of the concept which incidentally benefits once again big tech vendors...
As to the effectiveness of advertising, removing tracking will have a huge impact. And this affects all players in the value chain, not only adtech providers but also publishers and more importantly advertisers which will see their return on ad spent severely impacted. There is a real of loss "social welfare" (I mean in a game-theoretic sense, but also for real if you believe in capitalism) if tracking is disabled.
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Am I FLoCed? A New Site to Test Google's Invasive Experiment
Additionally, uBO causes all websites to opt-out of being part of FLoC calculation by injecting the appropriate response header.
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GitHub blocks FLoC on all of GitHub Pages
Maybe he should explain it on this repo (https://github.com/WICG/floc) of which he is a co-author then since that is where I got my misunderstanding from.
brave-browser
- FLaNK AI Weekly 18 March 2024
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Brave's AI assistant now integrates with PDFs and Google Drive
https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/wiki/Patching-Chromiu...
You'll notice the actual patching itself is introduced with the caveat:
I don't know why they went with patch files instead of forking chromium and rebasing the changes via git.
They document how developers should "rebase" chromium:
https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/wiki/Chromium-rebases...
And it looks like way more work than doing it with git via
git rebase chromium/master
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How Web3 Decentralization Can Dismantle Big Tech Monopolies in 2024
Brave browser, which blocks ads and trackers, grew to over 50 million monthly active users in 2023 while enabling privacy-first models to counter Google's search and Chrome browser ecosystem.
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Youtube not working anymore
For those looking for a fix: Use the latest Nightly Build for Brave.
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Can anyone verify this information about privacy?
~Using privacy plug-ins or browsers. You can block our site from setting cookies used for interest-based ads by using a browser with privacy features, like Brave, or installing browser plugins, like Privacy Badger, Ghostery or uBlock Origin, and configuring them to block third party cookies/trackers.
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I'm almost done with edge
careful with brave https://www.ghacks.net/2023/10/18/brave-is-installing-vpn-services-without-user-consent/?amp https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/issues/33726 among other things like the most popular browser compare site being owned by brave employees https://privacytests.org/ i guess when they say privacy they mean it, keeping things private from you too
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Why Bother with uBlock Being Blocked in Chrome? Time to Switch to Firefox
https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/issues/33726
or how the most popular browser privacy test is run by a brave employee.. hmm guess which browser scores the highest and a favorable testing environment with the settings
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Best Android Apps that you should definitely try!
Browser:- - Brave - Open source chromium browser with built-in adblocker
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Brave appears to install VPN Services without user consent
I know we like to get the pitchforks out, but, it appears to be accidental:
What are some alternatives?
Vanadium - Privacy and security enhanced releases of Chromium for GrapheneOS. Vanadium provides the WebView and standard user-facing browser on GrapheneOS. It depends on hardening in other GrapheneOS repositories and doesn't include patches not relevant to the build targets used on GrapheneOS.
bromite - Bromite is a Chromium fork with ad blocking and privacy enhancements; take back your browser!
thorium - Chromium fork named after radioactive element No. 90. Windows and MacOS/Raspi/Android/Special builds are in different repositories, links are towards the top of the README.md.
Brave-AppImage
iridium-browser - Iridium Browser source code
bypass-paywalls-chrome - Bypass Paywalls web browser extension for Chrome and Firefox.
chromium - The official GitHub mirror of the Chromium source
Pi-hole - A black hole for Internet advertisements
ungoogled-chromium - Google Chromium, sans integration with Google
uBlock - uBlock Origin - An efficient blocker for Chromium and Firefox. Fast and lean.
adblock-rust - Brave's Rust-based adblock engine
privacytools.io - 🛡🛠 You are being watched. Protect your privacy against global mass surveillance.