[6.x] Drop Permission-Policy: interest-cohort=() header#11646
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This pull request drops the
Permission-Policy: interest-cohort=()header added in #3545.It was added in response to Google's Federated Learning of Cohorts (FLoC) experiment which was a way to gather user data without using cookies, regardless of tracking scripts being loaded.
The experiment was short-lived after widespread blocking by websites, and from what I can tell, support for this header was dropped in January 2022 (it's no longer listed on MDN).
It now causes a warning to show in Google Chrome, and other Chromium-based browsers:
Related: #11644