Chrome Canary Now Lets Users Block FLoC
https://www.techradar.comThe latest bleeding edge Canary build of Google’s Chrome web browser has added an option to disable the controversial Federated Learning of Cohorts (FLoC) feature.
The feature is currently under trial, and according to Google FLoC only applies to 0.5% of users in selected regions, including Australia, Brazil, Canada, India, Indonesia, Japan, Mexico, New Zealand, the Philippines, and the United States.
In any case, until now the only way to opt-out of the FLoC trial was to disable the use of third-party cookies altogether.
However, in Chrome’s latest Canary build, Google developers have added an option to disable FLoC, though accessing the option isn’t straightforward.
- chrome://flags/#privacy-sandbox-settings-2 – enable it
- Once enabled, you can then choose to turn off the FLoC feature after restarting chrome chrome://restart
- and going to chrome://settings/privacySandbox and disabling it there.
