What Do You Know About Internet Privacy ?...
Advertisers have depended on "cookies," little bits of code placed in computer browsers that allow them to track our online activity and provide us appropriate advertising, for decades. When smartphones were being introduced, marketers began to employ trackers embedded in mobile apps to monitor users between apps and websites.
These advertising methods were extremely powerful and successful, but they also had significant drawbacks. It allowed marketers to create hyper-realistic, non-anonymous profiles of us. It also allowed unscrupulous actors to steal people's data and disseminate false information.
People's interests change throughout time, as do their Floc IDs (Federated Learning of Cohorts.) Floc IDs appear to be recalculated every week or so at the moment. This implies that if a tracker can connect up user visits over time using other data, they can utilize the combination of FLoC IDs in week 1, week 2, and so on to identify specific users. It works even with newer anti-tracking measures like Firefox's Total Cookie Protection (TCP), which is a reason for concern. TCP is designed to prevent trackers from associating visits across sites, but it does not prevent trackers from correlating numerous visits to the same site. Even if users have TCP enabled, FLoC restores cross-site tracking.
First and foremost, sites can choose whether or not to participate in FLoC. Sites are included in the FLoC calculation in Chrome's current experiment if they perform ads-related activities, either "load ads-related resources" or contact the FLoC APIs. It's unclear what the final inclusion criterion will be, but it's safe to assume that any website that incorporates advertising will be included by default. Sites can also use the Permissions-Policy HTTP header to completely opt out of FLoC, although it's unlikely that many will do so.
In recent years, widespread concern about internet privacy has sparked an industry-wide debate over what to do about monitoring. Apple and Google have each come up with their own answer. Advertisers have no option but to adapt because of the enormous reach of Apple and Google's products. Google's Chrome browser is the most popular in the world, and Apple's iPhone is the best-selling phone They now have to come up with new ways to display advertising to us while utilizing less of our personal information. Small online newspapers, for example, may not be able to thrive if they rely on digital advertisements to attract customers.
Little businesses may now pay a small amount of money to target particular clients with advertisements across several websites and applications. However, since Apple devices may now stop this sort of tracking, small businesses may have to pick between major brands like Facebook, Google, and Etsy and advertise on each of those platforms.
To put it another way, firms may be compelled to pay more money to market their products across various platforms. These additional expenses would be passed on to you, resulting in price hikes, and nobody wants an increase in product prices.
Users will continue to see targeted advertisements as Google attempts to reinvent ad targeting rather than entirely eliminate it. According to security experts, the company's suggested advertising tactics might possibly cause new problems. As in every situation that has a new system or technology, there will always be bugs to work out in the beginning. Hopefully, over time the online advertisement will become less invasive and feel less like we are being listened to and stalked through our computers to our phones.
