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Update the Permissions-Policy header to disable Topics

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Description

See ebmdatalab/sysadmin#354

We disabled Google's Federated Learning of Cohorts (FLoC) on several Bennett sites. FLoC was replaced by Topics in May 2023, so we should also disable Topics.

To do so, we should add the browsing-topics permissions policy to the Permissions-Policy header. In a Django site with django-permissions-policy installed, that means updating the following in settings.py:

PERMISSIONS_POLICY = {
"interest-cohort": [],
"browsing-topics": [],
}

However, first we need to install django-permissions-policy. So, this is blocked on updating Django and other dependencies.

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Start with the blocked Django and dependency updates, then locate the site's settings.py. Confirm django-permissions-policy is installed and update the existing PERMISSIONS_POLICY configuration with browsing-topics alongside interest-cohort. Done means the Permissions-Policy header disables Topics as described.

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Assessment

Tech stack
django, python
Domain
backend, security
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Activity status
Stale
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Mostly clear
Newbie friendliness
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