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
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.
by Anonymous Coward writes:
on Tuesday April 20, 2021 @09:41AM (#61293698)
That doesn't sound like google at all. The sexist activity will be to show engineering jobs to black and girls disproportionately to whites because whites are 'overrepresented'
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: (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:Maybe I'm overlooking something (Score:0)