GitHub blocks Google FLoC tracking April 28, 2021 https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/github-blocks-google-floc-tracking/
Google’s nightmare may become real as Europe considers FLoC consent pop-ups: https://mspoweruser.com/googles-nightmare-may-come-real-as-europe-considers-floc-consent-pop-ups/
Google confirms FLOC implementation delay to earliest Q4 2022 October 3, 2021 https://mspoweruser.com/google-confirms-floc-implementation-delay-to-earliest-q4-2022/
Google's Topics API: Rebranding FLoC Without Addressing Key Privacy Issues https://brave.com/web-standards-at-brave/7-googles-topics-api/
Hmmm ... 're-branding' ... a way to fool people into accepting something they would have otherwise rejected.
They are going to start testing the new Topics (formerly known as FLoC) feature in Chrome. Not sure what this means for other browsers like Brave, Vivaldi, Opera and Edge. Hopefully adblockers like uBlock will be able to block this stuff. https://blog.chromium.org/2022/03/what-to-expect-from-ps-testing.html
Keep us posted on Topics testing, and if you become aware of uBlock or AdGuard blocking it. TY, @Rasheed187
Now that I think of it, most likely the browser itself will need to give an option to disable it. So let's hope that Vivaldi, Firefox, Edge and Brave will give such an option. Because if I'm correct, adblockers can't block third party cookies either.
Firefox can block third party cookies just look under edit>settings>privacy&security custom> cookies> block all third party cookies, also I think Privacy Badger can block third party cookies to.
Why not? If the cookie is from a known tracking domain that's in one of the lists, the network request will be blocked.
Yes, browsers can do it, not sure about extensions. Yes, but it's not blocking the cookies itself right? But I guess you're saying that this doesn't matter? Back in the days I disabled loading of third party cookies, but it caused too many problems on some sites, and Chromium makes it hard to manage cookies per site.
You might try again. I never have any problems denying third party cookies. Have you tried the extension Cookie AutoDelete?
Certain sites might give problems when blocking third party cookies, but I guess you never encountered those sites. And I don't need Cookie AutoDelete, what I meant is that in Chromium it's annoying to allow third party cookies on only certain sites. I'm guessing that Google has done this on purpose, they designed it to be unhandy.
The very first example of those "issues" with the third party cookies is the Yahoo comment section visibility. I've written in some other threads that I cannot see the Yahoo comment section if my Firefox has the "block third party cookies" setting.
I don't use Facebook and never will, but just tried logging in on GitLab and could sign in with my GitHub account just fine.
No correct, it depends on the website I guess, and perhaps things have been improved. Perhaps I should disable third party cookies once again and see if I run into problems.
"Google is preparing to push back its deadline for killing off tracking cookies until at least 2024... It would be the second time the company has pushed back the cookie phaseout. Google first said it would end support for third-party cookies in Chrome "within two years" in 2020 — but last year it extended the timeline to complete the process by late 2023... The latest delay is intended to allow more time for advertisers, publishers, and other members of the online ad industry to begin formal testing of the new cookieless technologies proposed in Google's "Privacy Sandbox" initiative, those sources said..." https://www.businessinsider.com/goo...ying its,time to test cookieless alternatives.
