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A site could make a lot more money by selling its users' passwords to the highest bidder — that doesn't mean we shouldn't try to deny them that income. Without
by oneeyedpigeon 7y ago
A site could make a lot more money by selling its users' passwords to the highest bidder — that doesn't mean we shouldn't try to deny them that income. Without sharing personal data, ads can still be relevant to the scope of the site itself (less so for incredibly 'broad' sites such as facebook, of course, but they get compensated by having a much larger audience). A site can also gather whatever personal data it wants, and serve its own ads.
- jefftk 7y agoChrome's Privacy Sandbox proposal [1] is about (a) having interest-based ads without (b) letting third parties track users across sites. Have a look at it, especially FLoC [2] and PIGIN [3]. [1] https://www.chromium.org/Home/chromium-privacy/privacy-sandbox https://www.chromium.org/Home/chromium-privacy/privacy-sandb... [2] https://github.com/jkarlin/floc https://github.com/jkarlin/floc [3] https://github.com/michaelkleber/pigin https://github.com/michaelkleber/pigin