WICG/floc
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70 mentions on Hacker News by 44 people: 3 stories, 67 comments · first 2019-08-22 · latest 2021-08-17
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…against people’s general interests I have to wonder if the double meaning here was intentional. [0] https://github.com/WICG/floc
comment by MaxBarraclough · 2021-02-10 · in Google’s next big Chrome update will rewrite the rules of the web -
…like your post. It does conflate Privacy Sandbox with one of the specific proposals, however: [...] https://github.com/WICG/floc Thanks for the clarification Jeff. > Another component of Privacy Sandbox is Turtledove (…
comment by davidfstr · 2021-02-04 · in Google’s approach to replacing the cookie is drawing antitrust scrutiny -
…cohort is transmitted, and a remote ad server can use that cohort directly." is describing https://github.com/WICG/floc Another component of Privacy Sandbox is Turtledove ( https://github.com/WICG/turtledove ), where advertisers can tag a…
comment by jefftk · 2021-02-04 · in Google’s approach to replacing the cookie is drawing antitrust scrutiny -
For those who want to really double click here's an interesting place to look: https://github.com/WICG/floc
comment by throwaway31416 · 2021-02-04 · in Google’s approach to replacing the cookie is drawing antitrust scrutiny -
…individual users. In the proposal, the non-clustered data does not leave the user's device: https://github.com/WICG/floc (Disclosure: I work for Google, speaking only for myself)
comment by jefftk · 2021-01-25 · in Google has been testing a replacement for third-party cookies -
…which is an ID of some sort that you can send over as a part of requests to the advertiser URL's. https://github.com/WICG/floc
comment by lxe · 2021-01-25 · in Google has been testing a replacement for third-party cookies -
…(in a browser add-on or in the browser natively) is helping here. EDIT: The official description [ https://github.com/WICG/floc ], does a better job in explaining the point. They try to cluster (="cohort") users interests and exchange that…
comment by Medicineguy · 2021-01-25 · in Google has been testing a replacement for third-party cookies -
Read this explainer: https://github.com/WICG/floc
comment by alisonkisk · 2021-01-25 · in Google has been testing a replacement for third-party cookies -
…not bad. Anyway, mods, here's a much better article that has more than one line of vague content: https://github.com/WICG/floc
comment by alisonkisk · 2021-01-25 · in Google has been testing a replacement for third-party cookies -
for anyone looking to read more on FLoC -> https://github.com/WICG/floc and TURTLE-DOV -> https://github.com/WICG/turtledove Thanks OP for mentioning these.
comment by hp77 · 2021-01-08 · in Google Chrome browser privacy plan investigated in UK -
> https://github.com/jkarlin/floc this is the one I mean, yes.
comment by sandoooo · 2020-07-31 · in Opera GX Gaming Browser -
This FLoC? https://github.com/jkarlin/floc
comment by aspenmayer · 2020-07-31 · in Opera GX Gaming Browser -
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Federated Learning of Cohorts (FLoC): interest-based ads, privacy, no cookiesstory by aspenmayer · 2020-07-31 · 0 comments
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…you were interested in buying a car if you click on an ad. Or with the proposed FLoC browser API ( https://github.com/jkarlin/floc ) where your browser uses on-device clustering to present an interest category instead of the ad network…
comment by jefftk · 2020-06-19 · in Oracle’s BlueKai tracks people across the web – that data spilled online -
What do you think of FLoC ( https://github.com/jkarlin/floc ) and TURTLE-DOV ( https://github.com/michaelkleber/turtledove )?
comment by jefftk · 2020-03-25 · in Full third-party cookie blocking and more -
…Specifically, I referenced two proposals for privacy-preserving ad personalization, FLoC ( https://github.com/jkarlin/floc ) and TURTLE-DOV ( https://github.com/michaelkleber/turtledove ), and their response was that privacy wasn't the…
comment by jefftk · 2020-03-25 · in Full third-party cookie blocking and more -
…demographics instead the literal individual following them around Then you might like FLoC ( https://github.com/jkarlin/floc ) and TURTLE-DOV ( https://github.com/michaelkleber/turtledove ). These are both ways of implementing targeted…
comment by jefftk · 2020-03-25 · in Full third-party cookie blocking and more -
…In which they explicitly track you more under the guise of protecting your privacy. https://github.com/jkarlin/floc For every single claim Google makes about being pro-privacy, their definition of privacy ("data shared between you and…
comment by kick · 2020-02-04 · in Google tracks individual users per Chrome installation ID -
…FLoC [2] and PIGIN [3]. [1] https://www.chromium.org/Home/chromium-privacy/privacy-sandb... [2] https://github.com/jkarlin/floc [3] https://github.com/michaelkleber/pigin
comment by jefftk · 2019-12-19 · in How tracking pixels work -
Here are the initial proposals from Chrome engineering: > https://github.com/jkarlin/floc > Browsers would need a way to form clusters that are both useful and private: Useful by collecting people with similar enough interests and…
comment by ignoramous · 2019-08-22 · in Privacy Sandbox – Open standards to enhance privacy on the web