Opting out from Google's FLOC in Symfony

FLOC is evil.

But opting-out your site from this nasty “experiment” is easy enough. If you are hosting your Symfony application on a server where you do not have access to webserver settings, setting the opt-out header is easy enough.

You can simply edit your public/index.php front-controller and adjust the response just before sending it.

Assuming you have something like this:

$kernel   = new Kernel($_SERVER['APP_ENV'], (bool)$_SERVER['APP_DEBUG']);
$request  = Request::createFromGlobals();
$response = $kernel->handle($request);

$response->send();
$kernel->terminate($request, $response);

Just modify it to add the header before sending out the response:

$kernel   = new Kernel($_SERVER['APP_ENV'], (bool)$_SERVER['APP_DEBUG']);
$request  = Request::createFromGlobals();
$response = $kernel->handle($request);

// add this line
$response->headers->set('Permissions-Policy', 'interest-cohort=()');


$response->send();
$kernel->terminate($request, $response);

If you do not want to modify your front-controller to keep things tidy, you could do the same using an EventListener:

namespace App\EventListener;

use Symfony\Component\HttpKernel\Event\ResponseEvent;

class FlocHeadersListener
{
	public function onKernelResponse(ResponseEvent $event)
    {
    	$event->getResponse()->headers->set('Permissions-Policy', 'interest-cohort=()');
    }

}

Which you would then need to configure:

services:
    App\EventListener\FlocHeadersListener:
        tags:
            - { name: kernel.event_listener, event: kernel.response }

Or, if you are using PHP configuration files:

// config/services.php
namespace Symfony\Component\DependencyInjection\Loader\Configurator;

use App\EventListener\FlocHeadersListener;

return function(ContainerConfigurator $configurator) {
    $services = $configurator->services();

    $services->set(FlocHeadersListener::class)
        ->tag('kernel.event_listener', ['event' => 'kernel.response'])
    ;
};