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Google’s FLoC Is a Terrible Idea

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604 points wyldfire | 1 comments | 04 Mar 21 15:59 UTC | HN request time: 0.217s | source
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kall ◴[04 Mar 21 17:34 UTC] No.26345311[source]▶
If this actually goes anywhere, I'm kind of excited about it from the perspective of a product developer.

Being able to do content recommendation for fresh visitors without any tracking effort of your own would be pretty cool. It will probably come with a dialog, so users will likely opt out often for ads or on page load, but not if they just clicked "show me movie recommendations" in your app.

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nmeofthestate ◴[05 Mar 21 00:11 UTC] No.26350443[source]▶
> It will probably come with a dialog

Oh Christ I hope not. Any replacement for the current setup has to get rid of that blight. Should be a single opt in/out decision when you start using the browser.

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1. kall ◴[05 Mar 21 03:34 UTC] No.26352271[source]▶
It would be a browser level dialog, so good browsers can give you that option, like safari does for other permissions.