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Analysis With Google testing its FLoC ad technology in preparation for the planned elimination of third-party cookies next year, uncertainty about potential problems and growing legal support for privacy is shaking up the digital ad industry.
The move away from third-party cookies will have significant financial impact on the ad industry, and the internet ecosystem that depends on advertising – assuming you accept studies that credit third-party cookies with meaningful [PDF] rather than minimal [PDF] revenue. Our analysis suggests that the publishing industry will have to replace up to $10 billion in ad revenue with a combination of first-party data gathered through a combination of paywalls and required registrations, and updated contextual targeting and probabilistic audience modeling (analytics that incorporate an array of unknown elements), said consultancy McKins
Browser maker concerns
Browser maker Vivaldi said yesterday: FLoC off! Vivaldi does not support FLoC. Co-founder and CEO Jon von Tetzchner added: Our privacy policy is simple and clear; we do not want to track you.
He added that FLoC would expose personal data in new ways. You might visit a website that relates to a highly personal subject that may or may not use FLoC ads, and now every other site that you visit gets told your FLoC ID, which shows that you have visited that specific kind of site, he said.
These risks could go beyond embarrassment to have serious implications for society if used by authoritarian governments. A dictatorship may be able to work out that dissenters often seem to have one of the same five FLoC IDs. Now anyone who visits a nationally controlled website with that ID could be at risk, he added. We will not support the FLoC API and plan to disable it, no matter how it is implemented.
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