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

[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:

• https://www.ghacks.net/2022/01/26/google-drops-floc-and-announces-topics-as-the-future-cookie-less-advertising-system/
• https://www.howtogeek.com/781814/how-google-chrome-will-use-topics-to-track-you-for-ads/
• https://www.techradar.com/au/news/google-has-a-new-idea-for-tracking-us-across-the-web

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

[Hadden89]

@Stardust No need. Just hide insert CSS here horrible/useless chromium settings would be nice... also, biting too much the hand which give you (part of the) food couldn't be a good idea

[Dahliaaa]

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