Wahaha wrote on April 29, 2021 at 8:22 PM

Is this only part of Chrome or will this become an integral part of the engine that basically all other browsers use, too?

BlackWinnerYoshi wrote on April 29, 2021 at 8:38 PM

It looks like it will be embedded in a way that can be disabled. In fact, Brave and Vivaldi have already stated FLoC will be disabled. ungoogled-chromium didn't state anything about it AFAIK, but since it disabled everything Google, it will probably disable FLoC too.

Wahaha wrote on April 30, 2021 at 7:54 AM

Is there a difference between ungoogled-chromium and chromium-browser? I've got the latter in my repository (Linux Mint), but not the former.

BlackWinnerYoshi wrote on April 30, 2021 at 11:33 AM

The difference is that ungoogled-chromium disables connections and integrations to Google. Since I have a feeling the chromium-browser Mint package might still contain those, you might need to download the package manually. I think AppImage, Debian, or the portable builds should work.

DcscZx5idox wrote on May 2, 2021 at 10:50 AM (edited on May 2, 2021 at 10:52 AM)

Bromite is a Chromium fork with ad blocking and enhanced privacy for Android.
This browser is disabled FLoC by default since version 90.0.4430.101.

BlackWinnerYoshi wrote on May 2, 2021 at 1:51 PM

Bromite is only for Android, but I guess Android web browsers are missed when mentioning FLoC. Also, from what I see, CalyxOS build of Chromium either has FLoC disabled by default (and it is on version 89, by the way) or I haven't been FLoC'd. Actually, since I disabled third-party cookies, I can't be FLoC'd. And also, it doesn't look like the Calyx Institute mentioned FLoC and whenever they disabled it in their build of Chromium.

Seidoken wrote on May 4, 2021 at 6:21 PM

I use Waterfox how fucked am I?

takeheart wrote on May 7, 2021 at 6:43 AM

https://spyware.neocities.org/articles/waterfox_classic.html

Google FLoC – What You Need to Know & How To Opt Out

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