FLoC off! WordPress proposes treating Google's new targeted ad tech as a security concern

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By Mark Sofia Wyciślik-WilsonApr 19, 2021, 4:00 am137 pts
Google's Federated Learning of Cohorts (FLoC) technology has raised the hackles of many, and the latest to express concern at the new user tracking and ad targeting technique is WordPress. The blogging platform joins the likes of DuckDuckGo in standing up to Google, suggesting it could block Google's new…

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