Yeah, you heard me.
I found out about Google FLoC this morning. Suffice it to say, I was pretty outraged: not that I use Google Chrome or Google products if I can help it. However it takes the cake really.
If you haven't see it yet:
Or more at
https://amifloced.org/
https://blog.runcloud.io/google-floc/
Which sounds like a completely vile idea to me and an absolute abuse by an already over-abusing company that is stretching into the realm of 1984.
Anyway, as I don't serve you advertising on this site, it is self-funded by me as well as through your donations, it technically shouldn't matter for HPC:Factor users because "technically" FLoC shouldn't report your visits here... however I don't trust Google as far I can throw them. Consequently, either in vein hope that they'll honour it in the medium-term, or if you prefer, see it as a protest vote. The HPC:Factor server is now broadcasting the anti-FLoC header.
Permissions-Policy: interest-cohort=()
If you are a website owner, I encourage you to join the protest. To do this, you need to inject this into the HTTP header for every single page on your website. In IIS, if you don't want to server-side code it to be injected at runtime on every single page on your site, this means adding the following to web.config:
<configuration>
<system.webServer>
<httpProtocol>
<customHeaders>
<add name="Permissions-Policy" value="interest-cohort=()" />
</customHeaders>
</httpProtocol>
</system.webServer>
</configuration>
HPC:Factor does not profit from thrusting ads down your throat and I neither intend to be either a willing or unwilling third-party to any of my community having their privacy exploited. Your donations do help me hugely to do that, so thank-you for keeping this place ad-free since 2004
(and ce320 since 2000
).
If you are a Chrome user, I strongly encourage you to stop using it and instead install Brave
(
https://brave.com/ ). Brave is the Chrome engine without insidious Google or Microsoft tracking features in it that are found in Chrome and Edge. I also encourage you to use DuckDuck Go
(
https://duckduckgo.com ) instead of Google, plus, install something like uBlock Origin
(
https://ublockorigin.com/ ) and, if you have a server/spare Raspberry Pi, Pi-hole
(
https://pi-hole.net/ ). The latter givng you full home network ad-blocking for any device on your home or business network. This is a way to vote with your feet and give as big, as rude a finger-based gesture as possible to Google about this.