I don't understand how picking between two different browser tracking technologies can "help combat racism, sexism, anti-LGBTQ+ discrimination, and discrimination against those with mental illness with four lines of code,"
Because, Jesus if it were that easy why didn't we solve racism and sexism decades ago?
I can only speculate, but I believe the issue is that FLoC will start categorizing people by their browsing habits at the browser level. So within a period of time, the browser will know which groups you belong to and start showing you tailored content. As they state it's a privacy concern, I assume the issue is something like this: 1) Your browser figures you you are in a group such as LGBTQ+ and start tailoring your ad/news content accordingly. 2) Through means undefined, a bad actor finds this out (or ma
by Anonymous Coward writes:
on Monday April 19, 2021 @04:29PM (#61291628)
FLoC will categorize a young black single man so that he sees a lot of black singles dating web sites. It will also not show him ads for engineering jobs or mortgage lenders.
Do you look for engineering jobs enough for your history to skew that way Or are these presented to people based on inferred demographics from browsing habits?
can be applied for whatever they want, discounts, services, products, politics, etc
one politic can run ads saying they will defend LGBT people and send then to the LGBT people only and the do ads that will fight LGBT and send them to radical religious people. By having clear profiles of each user, people that sell and buy ads can make whatever they want with the data, even abuse it... and you have zero control on that
A debugged program is one for which you have not yet found the conditions
that make it fail. -- Jerry Ogdin
Maybe I'm overlooking something (Score:5, Insightful)
I don't understand how picking between two different browser tracking technologies can "help combat racism, sexism, anti-LGBTQ+ discrimination, and discrimination against those with mental illness with four lines of code,"
Because, Jesus if it were that easy why didn't we solve racism and sexism decades ago?
Re: (Score:5, Insightful)
I can only speculate, but I believe the issue is that FLoC will start categorizing people by their browsing habits at the browser level. So within a period of time, the browser will know which groups you belong to and start showing you tailored content. As they state it's a privacy concern, I assume the issue is something like this:
1) Your browser figures you you are in a group such as LGBTQ+ and start tailoring your ad/news content accordingly.
2) Through means undefined, a bad actor finds this out (or ma
Re:Maybe I'm overlooking something (Score:3, Funny)
FLoC will categorize a young black single man so that he sees a lot of black singles dating web sites. It will also not show him ads for engineering jobs or mortgage lenders.
Re: (Score:2, Insightful)
Do you look for engineering jobs enough for your history to skew that way Or are these presented to people based on inferred demographics from browsing habits?
Re: (Score:3)
can be applied for whatever they want, discounts, services, products, politics, etc
one politic can run ads saying they will defend LGBT people and send then to the LGBT people only and the do ads that will fight LGBT and send them to radical religious people. By having clear profiles of each user, people that sell and buy ads can make whatever they want with the data, even abuse it... and you have zero control on that