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AlexandrB on April 13, 2021 | parent | context | favorite | on: The Vivaldi browser will not support Google’s FLoC

Does FLoC include anti-tamper features or could one of Chrome's competitors "support" FLoC by populating the FLoC user profile with fabricated user data?

yoavm on April 13, 2021 | [–]

There's no need to tamper with anything, the specs already mention this:

> Whether the browser sends a real FLoC or a random one is user controllable

https://github.com/WICG/floc

tarruda on April 13, 2021 | [–]

That's exactly the same thing I asked myself after skimming through the github README.

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