Go FLoC Away
A tiny plugin to disable FLoC by setting/amending Permissions-Policy header.
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Possibly abandoned • Last updated 1717 days ago
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Description
FLoC (Federated Learning of Cohorts) is a new proposed feature Google is rolling out in its Google Chrome browser. This
feature is downright [https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/03/googles-floc-terrible-idea terrible step against the privacy]
of users, and this tiny plugin tries to help mitigate it by setting a Permssions-Policy: interest-cohort=() header
to ask Google Chrome to FLoc Away.
Installation
- Upload the downloaded plugin directory to
/wp-content/plugins/directory, or install the plugin through the WordPress plugins screen directly. - Activate the plugin from the ‘Plugins’ screen in WordPress.
- You are all set! There is nothing to configure. Your site will emit necessary headers to FLoC Away.
Frequently Asked Questions
No. This plugin only sets a Permisssions-Policy header to specifically disable FLoC feature. It does not block anything.
All browsers that do not support FLoC will simply skip the interest-cohort clause in the header. Older browsers that
do not recognize the Permisssions-Policy will simply the header algother.
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1.0
- Initial release.