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My biggest issue with ads is the tracking. It sounds like this system will make tracking easier, and leak information about your browsing habits to the wallet p
by CodesInChaos 6y ago
My biggest issue with ads is the tracking. It sounds like this system will make tracking easier, and leak information about your browsing habits to the wallet provider.
IMO the technology most suited for anonymous micro payments are blind signatures, like Chaum's Ecash or GNU Taler. This still has centralized issuers and some implementations require the payment receiver to be identified, but it neither the issuer not the payee can tell how you spend your money.
- sofixa 6y agoSorry, but i specifically address this in the article: > Anonymity and privacy are provided by the way things work - that wallets are randomly generated IDs, Coil transfer the money, the wallet provider knows who the recipient is, the content creators knows how much they’ve received, but nobody knows everything. Here’s a post[0] by Coil’s co-founder and CTO Ben Sharafian discussing wallet-side and sender-site (based on PrivacyPassp[1]) privacy techniques they and the wallet providers use to ensure everyone’s privacy is respected. 0 - https://coil.com/p/sharafian/Doubling-Down-on-Privacy/cD_ZiwT2J https://coil.com/p/sharafian/Doubling-Down-on-Privacy/cD_Ziw... 1 - https://privacypass.github.io/ https://privacypass.github.io/
- CodesInChaos 6y agoI based my statement on that paragraph, since the mechanisms the article describes are clearly insufficient to ensure privacy when the participants collude. However the part only mentioned by name, PrivacyPass, uses blind signatures and thus might actually work.