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Does chromium-browser keep FLoC?

Asked by නොදන්නා

I see other forks remove it, it's good to know about this browser

https://brave.com/why-brave-disables-floc/
https://vivaldi.com/blog/no-google-vivaldi-users-will-not-get-floced/

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#1

https://blog.malwarebytes.com/privacy-2/2021/04/how-to-opt-out-of-the-google-floc-trial/

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නොදන්නා (aunknown) said : 		#2

No, i mean to know if chromium team or that snap release handle ubuntu developers plans to remove that part from chromium opensource browser same as vivaldi, brave. I also saw details about edge browser disabled it

otherwise i saw these things https://github.com/ShivanKaul/flocblock

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නොදන්නා (aunknown) said : 		#3

https://github.com/brave/brave-core/pull/8468
(Disable FLoC features and the provider service)

https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/issues/14942
(Currently Brave disables the FLoC component. However there is other FLoC functionality shipped in Chromium (behind origin trials). We should disable FLoC completely in Brave, including:....)

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Olivier Tilloy (osomon) said : 		#4

Thanks for the pointers Aurora. Disabling FLoC makes sense in the interest of users' privacy. Would you mind filing a bug at https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/chromium-browser/+filebug to track the removal?

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නොදන්නා (aunknown) said : 		#5

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/chromium-browser/+bug/1926218

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Olivier Tilloy (osomon) said : 		#6

Thanks Aurora. Let's close the question and track progress on this in the bug report.

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