Fastify plugin to opt out of Google's Topics advertising-surveillance API
npm install fastify-floc-off
> Fastify plugin to opt-out of Google's Topics advertising-surveillance API
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, though it has the same privacy issues.
More information about the issues surrounding Google's FLoC can be found on EFF and Plausible Analytics.
Helmet and 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.
Install using npm:
``bash`
npm i fastify-floc-off
| Plugin version | Fastify version |
| -------------- | --------------- |
| >=3.x | ^5.x |>=2.x <3.x
| | ^4.x |>=1.x <2.x
| | ^3.x |
Please note that if a Fastify version is out of support, then so are the corresponding versions of this plugin
in the table above.
See Fastify's LTS policy for more details.
`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");
});
`
Contributions are welcome, and any help is greatly appreciated!
See the contributing guide for details on how to get started.
Please adhere to this project's Code of Conduct when contributing.
- Aras Abbasi - TypeScript support
fastify-floc-off` is licensed under the MIT license.