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Re:Opera GX Gaming Browser by sandoooo on Thursday July 30, 2020 @09:16PM (#24004654)
it's for market segmentation for advertisers. This way they can sell aggregate data and ad impressions that's targeted to a very specific and profitable segment.

Like google's 'flocks' concept, but maybe less moving pieces.

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Re:Opera GX Gaming Browser by aspenmayer on Thursday July 30, 2020 @09:37PM (#24004784)
This FLoC?

https://github.com/jkarlin/floc

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Re:Opera GX Gaming Browser by dgellow on Friday July 31, 2020 @12:27AM (#24005649)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flock_(web_browser)
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Re:Opera GX Gaming Browser by sandoooo on Friday July 31, 2020 @12:33AM (#24005688)
>https://github.com/jkarlin/floc

this is the one I mean, yes.

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Re:Opera GX Gaming Browser by OrangeKnucles on Friday July 31, 2020 @02:44AM (#24006287)
This reminded me of the Flock browser which was an interesting take on browsers like 10 years ago!
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