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Re:Opting Your Website Out of Google's FLoC Network by syntactic-sugar on Friday April 16, 2021 @07:37AM (#26832620)
- FLoC is still far better than third party cookies I'd take issue with 'far' better, and it has the additional problem of turning the privacy issue in to a moving target. How long did it take to get the wider public and legislators moving on tracking cookies? Now it's a similar issue, just it's called FLoC and its code on your own machine doing the spying.

- A world without advertising Super disagree that this at all an issue. Most of the revenue that gets eliminated is for stuff that people wont pay for anyway, and I question its value if that's the case. Personally I think all advertising is an utter blight, and couldn't care less if it goes away forever and takes its revenue with it. It will be a struggle for a while, and many small sites will fall. The stuff that will be left is stuff that's hopefully worth the money people pay for it, or run as a passion project.

Re:Opting Your Website Out of Google's FLoC Network by dcow on Friday April 16, 2021 @09:33AM (#26833659)
Advertising without any sort of tracking just based purely on inbound search queries is still really good advertising and better than older ways. What most people don't want is a profile following you around everywhere.
Re:Opting Your Website Out of Google's FLoC Network by ehsankia on Saturday April 17, 2021 @04:14PM (#26847087)
For Google Search it is, that doesn't apply to the millions of websites that aren't search engines and require monetization to be profitable.