We know Google has been working on alternatives to third-party cookie-based advertising for some time, and today it's explained a lot more about how it's going to work, and that it'll be ready to test it with advertisers in Google Ads in Q2, 2021.
The technology will take into account, interest-based advertising, audience creation, Conversion measurement, ad fraud prevention, anti-fingerprinting, and claims it'll be the future of privacy on the web.
Today, we're releasing new data showing how this innovation can deliver results nearly as effective as cookie-based approaches.​ Technology advancements such as FLoC, along with similar promising efforts in areas like measurement, fraud protection and anti-fingerprinting, are the future of web advertising — and the Privacy Sandbox will power our web products in a post-third-party cookie world.
Federated Learning of Cohorts (FLoC) proposes a new way for businesses to reach people with relevant content and ads by clustering large groups of people with similar interests. This approach effectively hides individuals “in the crowd” and uses on-device processing to keep a person’s web history private on the browser.
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