FLoC Can Go FLoCK Off

How-To May 18, 2021

You can optionally check if you're affected by this plague by going to the Electronic Frontier Foundation's Am I FLoCed.

Your first, and best option(!), is to simply switch to a proper, privacy respecting browser. Brave. for example, has promised to never implement this garbage, and seeing as its Chrome-/Chromium-based there's virtually no reason why not. Other alternatives include Vivaldi and Microshaft's Edge.

However, if you for whatever reason can't or don't want to switch from Chrome, then you should immediately block it by installing DuckDuckGo's privacy enhancing Chrome extension. It won't force you to use their search engine if you don't want to, and you still receive a ton of protections for your online privacy, including the new FLoC.

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All website operators should follow GitHub and many others' decision, and preemptively add the opt-out header for Google's new shitty tracking proposal.