https://github.com/fdawgs/fastify-floc-off

Fastify plugin to opt-out of Google's Topics advertising-surveillance API
https://github.com/fdawgs/fastify-floc-off

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Fastify plugin to opt-out of Google's Topics advertising-surveillance API

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/fdawgs/fastify-floc-off
• Owner: Fdawgs
• License: mit
• Created: 2021-04-28T07:47:14.000Z (over 3 years ago)
• Default Branch: main
• Last Pushed: 2024-10-02T08:45:00.000Z (3 months ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-10-06T07:22:26.416Z (3 months ago)
• Topics: fastify, floc, google, nodejs, plugin, topics
• Language: JavaScript
• Homepage: https://npmjs.com/package/fastify-floc-off
• Size: 454 KB
• Stars: 2
• Watchers: 1
• Forks: 0
• Open Issues: 1
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md
  • Changelog: CHANGELOG.md
  • License: LICENSE

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# fastify-floc-off

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> Fastify plugin to opt-out of Google's Topics advertising-surveillance API

## Overview

The `fastify-floc-off` plugin adds the "interest-cohort=()" directive to the `Permissions-Policy` response header to opt-out of Google's Topics advertising-surveillance API. It will create a new header if one does not already exist.

This was originally created to opt-out of Google's FLoC (Federated Learning of Cohorts), which has since been replaced with their [Topics API](https://github.com/patcg-individual-drafts/topics), though it has the same privacy issues.

You can read more about the issues that surround Google's FLoC [on EFF](https://eff.org/deeplinks/2021/03/googles-floc-terrible-idea) and [Plausible Analytics](https://plausible.io/blog/google-floc).

[Helmet](https://github.com/helmetjs/helmet) and [fastify-helmet](https://github.com/fastify/fastify-helmet) do not support the `Permissions-Policy` response header setting yet, so this plugin was created out of a need for an easy way to disable/opt-out of Google's Topics API. This ensures users accessing web applications are not subject to Google's unsolicited tracking.

## Installation

Install using `npm`:

```bash

npm i fastify-floc-off

```

For Fastify v4.x support, use `[email protected]`.

## Example usage

```js

const Fastify = require("fastify");

const flocOff = require("fastify-floc-off");

const server = Fastify();

server.register(flocOff);

server.get("/", (_req, res) => {

	res.send("ok");

});

server.listen(3000, (err) => {

	if (err) throw err;

	console.log("Server listening on 3000");

});

```

## Contributing

Contributions are welcome, and any help is greatly appreciated!

See [the contributing guide](https://github.com/Fdawgs/.github/blob/main/CONTRIBUTING.md) for details on how to get started.

Please adhere to this project's [Code of Conduct](https://github.com/Fdawgs/.github/blob/main/CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md) when contributing.

## Acknowledgements

-   [**Aras Abbasi**](https://github.com/uzlopak) - TypeScript support

## License

`fastify-floc-off` is licensed under the [MIT](./LICENSE) license.