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Re:Brave disables Chromium FLoC features by throwawayboise on Saturday April 10, 2021 @06:54PM (#26766013)
If ads are relevant to the content of the current page, no user profiling (even pseudo-anonymously) is necessary. To me that would be the best option.
Re:Brave disables Chromium FLoC features by lupire on Saturday April 10, 2021 @07:09PM (#26766126)
Not every web page has an associated strong commercial intent. Most sites, quality sites, would lose out to commerical junk sites if only commercial sites could make money from ads.
Re:Brave disables Chromium FLoC features by TheSmiddy on Saturday April 10, 2021 @07:33PM (#26766288)
Can you think of an example where there isn't an associated industry that would be able to serve ads?

A philosophy blog is the first thing that comes to find but even then that can have ads for universities, textbooks, quirky t-shirts, etc.

Re:Brave disables Chromium FLoC features by jefftk on Saturday April 10, 2021 @08:47PM (#26766658)
While you can often come up with relevant tie-ins for websites (a weather site could sell vacation packages, a news site could sell... insurance?) it turns out that for a huge fraction of websites relevant commercial interest is just very low.