Whatever goodwill Google earned in the past few years that it has been fighting off advertising and user tracking abuses may have gone down the train in an instant thanks to its proposed solution. The ...

Last month, Google announced plans to roll out a new privacy-focused feature called Federated Learning of Cohorts (FLoC) for the Chrome browser and ad serving websites. The technology is meant to ...

In an effort to phase out third-party cookies, Google has been advancing the rollout of FLoC for placing targeted ads on websites. This week, though, the Chromium-based and privacy-focused browsers ...

Vivaldi, Mozilla, and Brave have come out with strong statements against Google's FLoC. FLoC uses your data to place you into groups for the purpose of advertising. Microsoft also commented on FLoC, ...

According to the story by PCMag, any browser that is using the Chromium open source web browser as its base will be losing the ability to delete search engines from the default list that is ...

Google’s open-source Chromium code base is steadily gaining ground of late. After Microsoft opted to use it for Edge last week, privacy-focused browser Brave announced that it has switched to Chromium ...

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