It speaks volumes that Google allows many ad blocking extensions in Chrome Web Store, but blocked an extension that was doing exactly that:
Does that actually work? It seems like clicking on every ad would be easy to filter out.
Probably, but it would "trash which "cohort" Google thinks I belong in"; there's really no reason to fool Google into putting you into a specific cohort as opposed to just a random/"broken" one; either way, your true cohort is obscured.
Unless you were studying the impact of ads you receive based on cohort, like https://their.tube.
Re:Amazon is blocking Google’s FLoC
by throwaway3699 on Tuesday June 15, 2021 @05:42PM
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More likely FLoC will place you in a cohort also full of other AdNauseam users.
Re:Amazon is blocking Google’s FLoC
by thatguy0900 on Wednesday June 16, 2021 @12:39AM
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I remember reading about it on here a while ago and some Googler said that it was easily identified as automated clicking on their end, they have pretty sophisticated antifraud systems.
Re:Amazon is blocking Google’s FLoC
by teitoklien on Tuesday June 15, 2021 @11:37AM
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Just don’t use chrome ?
Or if you really like chrome
Use a chromium browser that won’t implement cohorts , why bother feeding it disingenuous data instead of just not feeding it anything ?
Stop using Chrome.
Re:Amazon is blocking Google’s FLoC
by hahahasure on Tuesday June 15, 2021 @11:30AM
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I'm surprised this hasn't happened yet.
Also there's an issue that bots are detected easily.
Is there a way we can just obfuscate / ruin our data with them?
Like a tool or browser extension I can run that clicks / visits a bunch of random links and totally trashes which "cohort" Google thinks I belong in.
I'd pay for this more than paying to opt-out. Then serve me all the ads you want.