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The second paragraph you quote is literally the counter example of what I just said.

There needs to exist a way to identify you in other ways and in the future cookies won't be one of those. So a site that has your information because you shared it with them will be able to see your cohort changing, otherwise you'll look like a new user each time.

And yeah I'm extremely familiar with FLoC, more so than the EFF.



> So a site that has your information because you shared it with them will be able to see your cohort changing

this itself is already unwanted

> otherwise you'll look like a new user each time.

but you won’t, because the existence of a non-fingerprinting-based solution isn’t going to stop fingerprinting.




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