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by mcrittenden 1894 days ago
Brave [0] is a web browser, built from Chromium, but with built in ad and tracker blocking.

FLoC stands for Federated Learning of Cohorts. The third party cookie is dying, and FLoC is a way for companies to group people together and track them, rather than tracking individuals. Here's more info about that [1] and here's an EFF article about why it's dangerous [2].

[0] https://brave.com/ [1] https://github.com/WICG/floc [2] https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/03/googles-floc-terrible-...