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"Privacy-Preserving" Attribution: Mozilla Disappoints Us Yet Again
(blog.privacyguides.org)
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this post was submitted on 14 Jul 2024
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Great article, Makes a lot of the arguments I made against advertiser and mozilla apologists in the previous threads better than I could have.
I think
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sums it up pretty well.
Like when they announced they were working on it in 2022: https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/privacy-preserving-attribution-for-advertising/
Sorry but that buys into the data miners' self serving myths. It implies the protocol is ok unless some failure makes it leak more information than was intended. In fact it's invasive even if it works exactly as hoped. "Tracking" is a misnomer too. It's hostile surveillance even if it's at population level. (Any nonconsensual surveillance that produces info to be used by people you don't like is hostile by definition. And it's near guaranteed that some of the buyers-advertisers, political campaigns and funders, govt agencies, whatever-will be people you don't like). So shut it down.