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by corty 1962 days ago
Those popups are not only necessary for cookies but for any kind of tracking that requires consent, e.g. all tracking for purposes of advertisements. So if you do browser fingerprinting instead of setting cookies, you still need that popup.

For using FloC data, if the granularity is sufficiently coarse so that a person cannot be identified by it and no specially protected groups can be identified (i.e. sexual orientation, religion, minors, etc.), then presumably using FloC data won't need that popup. But that remains to be seen, I guess it will take a few years of discussions in court until this is settled.