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I couldn't resist laughing out, just as I think if this guy Justin Schuh had been presenting this in-person at any non-adtech gathering, he would have been laug

• deburo 7y ago
  Maybe if he presented it to the Hacker News crowd, for which the popular opinion seems to be that anything less than 100% privacy is acceptable. You know this, but plenty of people, including me, prefers free content to paywalls at every corner. That Google is ramping up efforts in trying to improve privacy while maintaining the viability of free content providers is very positive. What's interesting anyway is what mechanisms they'll implement. I'm intrigued about the fingerprinting budget: how well will it really work?
  • rapht 7y ago
    I for one don't believe 100% privacy is even possible, and you've got to keep some kind of reality principle to decide what's "acceptable". But anyway, as someone else said, I don't trust the fox to guard the hen house - even though again there's some kind of reality check that says if (one of) the most powerful actor starts doing something, there _will_ be some traction, so yeah, let's see concretely what it is about... About the privacy budget: if I understand well, they want to count API calls that return device/environment-specific data, probably giving some set of weights to each of calls and stop accepting requests after a certain threshold. I'm a bit skeptical with that kind of complexity but why not.
    • ignoramous 7y ago
      Privacy Budget seems like a repackaged DNT. It is going to be better before it gets worse.