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Google has a new technology for tracking your web browsing – this is the way to stop it
Facebook got a lot of attention this week on how to track user activity. That scrutiny came as a result of Apple’s release of iOS 14.5 on Monday. This is a long-awaited new update to Apple’s mobile operating software that cracks. Describes this type of tracking activity. However, Google is producing news in line with these same policies and is part of the privacy / user tracking headache. Already several times this month, I wrote that Google has begun testing a new technology in Google Chrome called FLoC, which stands for Federated Learning of Cohorts. This seems to be intended to allow Chrome to improve user anonymity. This is a pledge that Google will do a few weeks ago through the movie to prevent advertisers from using third-party cookies to track users online. However, although Chrome does this via FLoC, it also collects browsing data for some users for advertising purposes. What was particularly frustrating to many was that the search giant opted out of the test easily, even though Google said it would test this as part of a limited pilot run before it was fully deployed. It didn’t provide a way. Of course, all this, as the Electronic Frontier Foundation said in a commentary entitled “Google’s FLoC is a terrible idea,” “as we know, no one should mourn the death of a cookie. It is complicated by the fact. Given that this eerie tracking mechanism was “the (essential) of the gloomy and dubious multi-billion dollar ad surveillance industry on the web.” If you want to see if Google is testing FLoC, go to https://amifloced.org now. This is a website created by EFF and can be checked with the push of a button on the site. You are unknowingly in a user browser where this is being tested. Meanwhile, the Malwarebytes people have published a simple walkthrough for anyone who wants to opt out of this test-and you definitely want to. “FLoC, along with many other elements of Google’s” privacy sandbox “proposal, is a step back from the more fundamental, privacy and user-focused changes in web needs,” said privacy researcher and user. CEOs Peter Snyder and Brendan Eich write. Privacy Forward Web Browser Brave. “Instead of major changes to enhance true privacy and eliminate conflicts of interest, Google maintains most of the current harmful and inefficient systems that the Web has evolved into, the systems that are disastrous for the Web. We are proposing a Titanic level deckchair shuffle. Users and publishers. ”If you want to opt out, follow these steps: First, you can always go on the nuclear route. Instead, stop using Google Chrome and switch to an alternative browser. The next step is to just download the DuckDuckGo browser extension for Google Chrome, which is a bit more inconvenient for some people. According to DuckDuckGo, “We’ve enhanced the blocking of trackers in Chrome extensions to block FLoC interactions on websites as well.” In addition, you can disable third-party cookies from within Google Chrome. To do this, you need to go to chrome: // settings from the URL bar. From the settings[プライバシーとセキュリティ],[Cookieとその他のサイトの日付],[サードパーティのCookieをブロックする]Click in the order of.