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> My behavior on a site is now being sent to the browser author, an unrelated party. What is the consequence of this? In the abstract I understand that it does
by nindalf 5y ago
> My behavior on a site is now being sent to the browser author, an unrelated party.
What is the consequence of this? In the abstract I understand that it doesn’t feel great, but I’m asking in the specific, how does it make a difference to any individual user?
If you knew that the user in the A group made fewer misclicks after the back button was shrunk … how does that harm anyone?
- Karunamon 5y agoYou could say the same thing about pretty much all adtech tracking, since nearly everyone would be unable demonstrate any concrete harm to themselves. That's not the point. The point is unless you are doing data collection on anything but an opt-in basis, you are not pro-privacy. What you do with the data or why you collect it or if that collection is harmful is irrelevant to this principle.
- 5560675260 5y agoThat's just extra data points that you give away for no good reason. Realistically it will not amount to anything (like, I'm sure, absolute majority of data collected even by sleaziest adtech). But worst case scenario? You data gets sold to a medical insurer, deanonymised, fed into ML models, then used to justify increasing premiums based on inferred health info.