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"Please switch to a browser that supports FLoC to view this page." [Links to Chrome, etc.]

"This website requires a browser that supports FLoC. Please install one of the folllowing compatible browsers: " [Links for Chrome, etc.]

"We've detected you are using a browser that does not support FLoC. Please update your browser to use this website." [Links to Chrome, etc.]

"Your browser is outdated! Please upgrade." [Links to Chrome, etc.]

"Browsehappy" [Links to Chrome, etc.]

As someone who routinely uses a browser that does not support Javascript, I see "warnings" like this once in a while. There are so many. Apologies if I remember the wordings incorrectly. Of course, 99% of the time the lack of a Javascript engine has zero effect on the ability to retrieve the information I need from the site. And I still get the info in the 1% cases anyway, if I really want it.

With FLoC, will web developers be able to make claims that a site "will not work" without FLoC. How will they get users to use Chrome or other browsers that enable FLoC by default.

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