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A place to discuss privacy and freedom in the digital world.

Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.

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Google’s FLoC Is a Terrible Idea (www.eff.org)

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 years ago

online behavior is linked to all kinds of sensitive characteristics—demographics like gender, ethnicity, age, and income; “big 5” personality traits; even mental health.

in the 2020s, you don’t browse the web, the web browses you!

Fundamentally, we want to limit how much information about individual users is exposed to sites so that in total it is insufficient to identify and track users across the web, except for possibly as part of large, heterogeneous groups.

the creepiest thing to me is the implication that they already have a trove of information and they will only let competitors have slices, as if Google is the personal information broker. maybe I don’t understand the privacy budget fully...