Amazon is blocking Google’s FLoC

Re:Amazon is blocking Google’s FLoC by flixic on Tuesday June 15, 2021 @11:08AM (#27516597)

It speaks volumes that Google allows many ad blocking extensions in Chrome Web Store, but blocked an extension that was doing exactly that:

https://adnauseam.io/free-adnauseam.html

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Re:Amazon is blocking Google’s FLoC by ec109685 on Tuesday June 15, 2021 @11:27AM (#27516862)

Does that actually work? It seems like clicking on every ad would be easy to filter out.

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Re:Amazon is blocking Google’s FLoC by sodality2 on Tuesday June 15, 2021 @11:36AM (#27517001)

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.

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Re:Amazon is blocking Google’s FLoC by throwaway3699 on Tuesday June 15, 2021 @05:42PM (#27521874)

More likely FLoC will place you in a cohort also full of other AdNauseam users.

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Re:Amazon is blocking Google’s FLoC by thatguy0900 on Wednesday June 16, 2021 @12:39AM (#27524973)

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.

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