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Re:Opting Your Website Out of Google's FLoC Network by shakna on Friday April 16, 2021 @01:45AM (#26829991)
Add the HTML equivalent to the document head:

    <meta http-equiv="Permissions-Policy" content="interest-cohort=()" />
Re:Opting Your Website Out of Google's FLoC Network by pdenton on Friday April 16, 2021 @06:01AM (#26831859)
I don't think the meta version of Permissions-Policy ever got implemented. "http-equiv" isn't a magic "here's a HTTP header I forgot to mention" pixie dust.

Better stick to the actual recommendation of adding the header in the server configuration.

Re:Opting Your Website Out of Google's FLoC Network by shakna on Friday April 16, 2021 @09:21PM (#26840827)
Whilst http-equiv is said to be an enumerated value, so far as I know in Chrome, it actually is "magic HTTP Header pixie dust": [0]

And whilst in Firefox parsing of the element is more spread out, they accept a very wide number of headers that aren't documented, and you'll find examples on MDN for any number of headers using http-equiv which aren't specified in the standard or on their docs for http-equiv itself [2] (For example, X-DNS-Prefetch-Control [1]).

[0] https://source.chromium.org/chromium/chromium/src/+/master:o...

[1] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Headers/X-...

[2] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/me...

Re:Opting Your Website Out of Google's FLoC Network by imwillofficial on Friday April 16, 2021 @10:41AM (#26834470)
In my case I don’t have access to the server configuration. I’m running a blog with Ghost Pro, is the above a reasonable workaround?
Re:Opting Your Website Out of Google's FLoC Network by mellavora on Friday April 16, 2021 @04:34AM (#26831190)
Hey, thanks for this! I've seen several posts now saying that all you need to do is add

``` Permissions-Policy: interest-cohort=()

```

somewhere, but they all seemed to assume that everyone knew where that where was (nginx config? webserver config? index.html? ??? ??????

Re:Opting Your Website Out of Google's FLoC Network by shakna on Friday April 16, 2021 @05:40AM (#26831700)
When you see something along the lines of:

Foo: things

This will generally be a HTTP Header. How you add that depends on your server/framework. (And will be well documented).

If you've only got a static site, then you can always fallback and use HTML to achieve the same thing with http-equiv, which gets added to the head element:

    <meta http-equiv="Foo" content="things" />
For example to redirect to /foo after 3 seconds:

    <meta http-equiv="Refresh" content="3; /foo" />
It's a little off the beaten track for most people, but the kind of knowledge a web developer can be expected to know, or know where to look in the documentation.

Hopefully that can help you in your future endeavours.

Re:Opting Your Website Out of Google's FLoC Network by majewsky on Friday April 16, 2021 @05:32AM (#26831635)
It's an HTTP header, so follow the documentation for your tooling for how to add custom HTTP headers.