WordPress to treat Google's new ad-tracking tech as a security issue
Monday, 19 April 2021 08:32
WordPress to treat Google's new ad-tracking tech as a security issue
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The project that manages the WordPress content management system, which claims to power about 41% of the Web, will treat Google's new ad-tracking technology, Federated Learning of Cohorts, as a security issue and block it from working.
A post from a core developer, who goes by the moniker Carike, on Sunday cited the
explanation provided by the Electronic Frontier Foundation about FLoC, in which it described the technology as a "terrible idea".