Blocks Chrome's new FLoC (Federated Learning of Cohorts) feature.
Google is experimenting with a new browser feature called Federated Learning of Cohorts, or FLoC. In short, this feature requires your browser to use your browsing history to place you into one of several thousand "cohorts"; it will then tell any page that asks which cohort you are in, revealing information about what kinds of websites you tend to visit.
The EFF has written about why this is a bad idea.
Allegedly, Google plans to add the ability for users to opt out of FLoC, but right now, the only way to do so is by disabling third-party cookies and potentially breaking existing websites. This extension provides an alternative: all websites will be automatically blocked from discovering your FLoC cohort.
- Install the extension from the Chrome Web Store.
- You're done! When a page requests your FLoC cohort, a red badge will appear on the extension icon, and the request will be blocked. You can test this at https://floc.glitch.me.
Probably! If you spot any, I'd be grateful if you could report them.
Please do!
Note that this extension includes a modified icon from Font Awesome
Pro, images/icon-dark.svg, which I'm not allowed to distribute in
source form. There is a similar icon from Font Awesome Free at
images/icon-free.svg, which you can rename and use instead.
Copyright © 2021 Ash Holland. Licensed under the EUPL (1.2 or later).
