No, Google! Vivaldi users will not get FloC’ed.

luetage

@guigirl I should use Chrome?

luetage

@gwen-dragon Thanks, some people say their devtools are awesome, I’ll consider it

luetage

@guigirl I wanted to change to Windows 10 anyway. Fedora is the distribution for wannabe losers. Maybe Floc will work better too. I’ll let you know and write something up to make your own transition easier.

barbudo2005

Also uBO is worried about FloC:

https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/releases/tag/1.35.0

"Chromium-based browsers

Google's FLoC is defused by default. Websites will be able to use the FLoC API (only if already present), but will be unable to get a result from it -- uBO causes the API to always fail as if there was no FLoC data available.

If your Chromium-based browser supports the FLoC API, this is the result you should get with uBO when testing with EFF's "Am I FLoCed?" (assuming you did not disable uBO's "uBlock filters -- Privacy" list):

Additionally, uBO causes all websites to opt-out of being part of FLoC calculation by injecting the appropriate response header.

You can opt-in to FLoC by creating the appropriate exception filter, see commit message for details."

Catweazle

@barbudo2005 , I like thr gif

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Catweazle

@guigirl , shure?

Stardust

@barbudo2005 said in No, Google! Vivaldi users will not get FloC’ed.:

Also uBO is worried about FloC

Nice!
I was expected something like this!
gorhill is the Best!

Stardust

Apparently FLoC is dead, but new enemy has emerged - Topics!

With Topics, your browser determines a handful of topics, like “Fitness” or “Travel & Transportation,” that represent your top interests for that week based on your browsing history. Topics are kept for only three weeks and old topics are deleted. Topics are selected entirely on your device without involving any external servers, including Google servers. When you visit a participating site, Topics picks just three topics, one topic from each of the past three weeks, to share with the site and its advertising partners. Topics enables browsers to give you meaningful transparency and control over this data, and in Chrome, we’re building user controls that let you see the topics, remove any you don’t like or disable the feature completely.

https://blog.google/products/chrome/get-know-new-topics-api-privacy-sandbox/

npro

@stardust this sounds even more ridiculous... and lame. A wholehearted gratz again to Gargle

Stardust

we’re building user controls that let you see the topics, remove any you don’t like or disable the feature completely.

I am sure this option will be hidden very deep in the settings and normal users would never discover it.

npro

@stardust Noooo... that can't be... why you say that... (related fresh news )

Google Gets Hit With a New Lawsuit Over 'Deceptive' Location Tracking

"Google falsely led consumers to believe that changing their account and device settings would allow customers to protect their privacy and control what personal data the company could access," DC Attorney General Karl Racine said. "The truth is that contrary to Google's representations it continues to systematically surveil customers and profit from customer data."

Stardust

@npro I know, never trust Google

guigirl

@stardust I'm beginning to worry that my fav hobby of kitten-strangling might place me into a too-narrow Topics pool, which then might lead me to become unfairly socially ostracised. Such injustice!

Stardust

@guigirl

guigirl

@stardust See! It's already begun!! Topics are terrible!!! Gargle are evil!!!!

Stardust

Here is Arstechnica article: Google drops FLoC after widespread opposition, pivots to “Topics API” plan

guigirl

@stardust Also:

Reading all these [i'd also seen the Ars one before coming to the forum this morning] simply increased the sense of rapturous love i feel for gargle, even more...

barbudo2005

@jane-n

What is this?

vivaldi://settings/privacySandbox

Hadden89

@barbudo2005 Chromium leftovers. Notice that floc is grayed out (so won't work) and privacy sandbox won't work either correctly because it relies ((currently)) on FLoC which is inhibited... about cookies... will see how it evolves

@Stardust So more wtf things in you may like this in carts; and pretty much a rebranded FLoC

Stardust

@Hadden89 said in No, Google! Vivaldi users will not get FloC’ed.:

@Stardust So more wtf things in you may like this in carts; and pretty much a rebranded FLoC

What? Google rebranded FLoC again?

BTW I think Vivaldi could replace these Google's Chromium leftovers with banners like:

These Google's spyware was removed from Vivaldi
- FLoC
- Topics
- new rebranded FLoC